Northeastern University students toss their caps at the end of their graduation ceremony on May 11, 2025, at Fenway Park in Boston. | Matthew J Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
A Vox reader Nneoma Ngene asks: Maybe it’s because I am a new grad, graduating with my bachelor’s in May yippee! But it seems everyone is super pessimistic about the job market these days. Has it been harder to get a job for people in recent years, or am I just finally shedding my childhood naïveté and being forced to wake up to the way the job market has always been?
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