Difficulties faced by young graduates...

Do young graduates have difficulties? In Portugal? No way! Everyone knows that as soon as they leave college they immediately get jobs. What they have to do is ask if their parents know someone, who knows someone that is a friend of someone who works in a company where they can get jobs. Of course, if they don't know someone who can offer them a job, what they should do is to apply for one. And while they wait for that unexisting answer, they have to live somewhere, and since their parents won't borrow them money and they don't have jobs they will most likely end up in some hut filled with dog-sized rats. All that I've said is true for average graduates, really smart graduates shouldn't have doubts: go abroad. As soon as thet do it, nearly all their problems vanish. Nearly, because when they get to work in a foreign country they realise that they spent fifteen or seventeen years learning stuff that they don't need and the true knowledge they use in their job could be learned in just one or two years. People say young graduates have problems and I ask: what problems?!

Carlos Madelino - 11ºC