Tag: jobs
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Millennials are Choosing College Over Trade Jobs
Edited and packaged by: John Camera, Cafari Reid and Maria Enea Despite hundreds of job openings and well-paying salaries, millennials are moving away from skilled trade jobs. Half of current trade workers are over 45-years-old, making it difficult for employers to recruit young people for open roles, according to a 2016 study by Fortune 500…
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Student Loans, Unpaid Internships, and an Uncertain Future
By Avery Seyler-Wetzel Laura Petrocelli knew being thirty thousand dollars deep in debt was not the best way to start a new life after college, but she also knew that if she was going to do college, she was going to do it right. Petrocelli, a junior at the State University at New York at New…
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“All I Really Want Is A Job In My Field That Pays Me”
By Michael Rosen After Mario Prainito, 22, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in media programming and management, he couldn’t find a full-time job. He did get an unpaid internship in Kingston, a short commute from New Paltz. Prainito stayed in New Paltz, paying rent for the house he has been living in the past two…
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Living on Minimum Wage in Albany, New York: Hard Work With Little Reward
By Marisa Losciale Just by looking at 23-year old Elena Kilcullen, you’d have no idea she was struggling to feed herself and her unemployed boyfriend. Kilcullen is tall and thin with a charred-burgundy, slightly overgrown pixie cut—which conveniently hides her undercut from her professional life. She also has begun a nice tattoo collection, ranging from…
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For Janet Yusko, Things Changed
By Anthony Mitthauer-Orza Janet Yusko never would have saw her life go from a having full-time job to seeing her father pass away and returning home to care for 82-year-old mother with dementia. At age 55, Yusko finds herself caught in a bind. After holding high-level administrative jobs in Ulster County, she’s unemployed and looking…
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How To Afford Your Work Ethic
By Mike Timpert Eleanor Candee was lying on the floor of her housemate Erica’s bedroom in tears. She didn’t want to smell like the place anymore, that scent of coffee and microwaved bagels that clung to her clothes and never left. She didn’t want to spend her weekends consumed with work, barely making enough to…
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Work, Play, Study
By Melissa Kramer In the frigid basement of a six-person house, curly-haired, 21-year-old Matt Joyce perches on his bed, fiddling with an unplugged electric guitar. The bed, with no headboard or box frame, sits on the concrete floor in the corner. The sounds of rain and wind permeate a small window above his head. The…
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A Closer Look At The Not-So Average College Student
By Briana Dunlay It is 6:50 a.m. on a Wednesday and Kelsey Simmons is about to start her day. Her shift ended late, and she did not get home until after 10:00 p.m. A night of homework has her struggling to wake up. Simmons does not have to be at her internship until 9:00 a.m.,…
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Employers Would “Like” Your Facebook Password
Students are ready to graduate from college and have begun their “real world” job search. They have prepared their clean-cut resume and interview smile. But the last thing they expect is to reveal their Facebook password to their potential employer. “I’ve heard about the whole Facebook and hiring thing, but I wasn’t sure what was…
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Literary Journalism: Uncertainty
As I’m struggling to zip up my long winter jacket while balancing my backpack and cell phone, I realize the only time I have to call my mom for her birthday is during my walk to my 8 a.m. class. I dial the home number. When she softly answers, “Hello,” I begin singing “Happy Birthday.”…
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Campus Holds Networking Fair for Jobs & Internships
The Career Resource Center (CRC) hosted the semester’s first Networking Fair for Jobs and Internships. The event took place Tuesday, Oct. 4 between 12 and 4 p.m. in Student Union MPR. Students were welcomed by smiles and greetings from faculty members of the CRC, who stood behind a long rectangular table with an orange spread…
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The Real World: SUNY New Paltz
New Paltz alumni young and old speak about the jobs they secured after college, and what it took to dip their feet into the real world.
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Mitch Scott: Teaching Self-Reliance
When Mitch Scott graduated from New Paltz this past May, he knew exactly what he wanted to do: teach English. The only problem was that nobody seemed to be hiring. “I attended Teacher Recruitment Day, applied to schools up and down the East Coast all summer, dropped off resumes in person, and all of it…
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Alex Storozynski: A Strong Foundation
Alex Storozynski graduated from New Paltz in 1983 with a degree in political science and minors in journalism and law & politics, and has gone on to achieve great things. He has written for publications such as The Chicago Tribune, and New York Post, and has written editorials for the New York Daily News.…
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Katie Koch: Some Things College Can’t Give
Katie Koch graduated from New Paltz with a bachelor’s degree in communication disorders in December 2009, with no job prospects, and no idea what her future held. After a summer full of job searching, Koch discovered Miss Mella’s Footsteps to Learning Preschool in Coram, N.Y. She made a phone call, filled out the application, went…
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Ivey Haber: Designing Her Career
Don’t kill your TV just yet! Production freelancer and businesswoman Ivey Elizabeth Haber designs sets for film and TV, like Play-Doh’s “Shape and Spin Elmo,” and when she’s not a freelance art production assistant in New York City, she’s a jack of all trades in fashion and media. Since September 2009, Haber has freelanced for…
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Anilsa Nunez: Campus Life Lessons
Anilsa Nunez had only lived in the United States for three years before she started at New Paltz, and the transition to college life was not easy. “I couldn’t understand half of what people were saying to me,” she said. However, with the help of mentors along the way, Nunez graduated in 1995 with a…
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Meg Zanetich: Freelance At Last
On Sunday morning, Meg Zanetich left her house with a notebook, a pen, and an agenda – cover the Boy Scout pancake breakfast. “Yes, the riveting journalism of the Hudson Valley,” she joked. “Hey, I take what I can get!” Zanetich, 24, graduated from SUNY New Paltz this August with a degree in journalism. She…