Attention grad students: Drop out now!

Start the management trainee program at Starbucks or the Army, because you're about to work there anyway.

Remember when a degree used to mean something? Me either. In an effort to postpone responsibility as long as possible, I shelled out over 60 grand on a Masters degree in journalism but apparently forgot to take the seminar on why graduate school is useless unless you're an engineer, federal employee, lawyer, or doctor.

What follows will be a chronicle of job searching by an advanced degree-holder with no previous full-time experience. Or real business wardrobe. Gasp.