“When I was 13, I was online all the time.” Colton told Today, Explained co-host Noel King. “I was on Tumblr, and I was seeing a lot of these currently graduating young adults kind of talk about their struggles with the job market and getting themselves established…I was always like, ‘Oh no, I need to do something that’s going to get me a job.’”
So Masi took the advice offered by everyone from Joe Biden to Chris Bosh to Ashton Kutcher in that era: he learned to code.
But Masi graduated from Drexel this past June into a historically bad job market for entry-level computer science positions. Since then he’s applied to about 100 jobs — none have even offered an interview.
“It’s like, you do everything right. You follow the instructions, but the field changes,” Colton said. “There’s nothing you can do about it. It’s just: keep it pushing until you find something.”
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