Hey All,

It's been a while since I've put up a new post and it's partially because I've been working on several new ideas and products to offer.

With graduation season almost over and the 2009 college graduates flooding the job market, I've also noticed more articles about unemployment being up, the state of California being in trouble due to shrinking budgets, and "useful" information to help all of the unemployed with getting a job.

This morning, I received an e-mail from Yahoo! Jobs and it was pretty pathetic and just overall - terrible advice.

Here's the article:

Top 10 Cities for New Grads
http://www.theworkbuzz.com/top-10-cities-for-new-grads/job-surveys/2179?siteid=crm_engcontent

Here's how they collected their information:

The list is based on the ranking of the top U.S. cities with the highest concentration of young adults (age 20 - 24) from the U.S. Census Bureau (2006), inventory of jobs requiring less than one year of experience from CBcampus.com (2009) and the average cost of rent for a one bedroom apartment from Apartments.com (2009).

Does that really make sense?? Why would I want to go to the top U.S. cities where a higher number than average of young adults are all competing for the crap jobs that require less than 1-year of experience?? How much do you think a job pays if they require less than one year of experience? And do you think someone with less than one year of experience (like a college graduate) will be able to compete with last year's graduate or the year before? Is it pretty likely that those graduates are also unemployed and are looking for jobs?

It doesn't take a college graduate to figure out pretty quickly that this article is bunk but unfortunately I'm sure many graduates out there will see the tag-line on Yahoo!'s front page and then read it and consider it a "good source of information".

Oh, but wait - it gets better. The article publishes the average costs of rent... hahaaha. In this economy, I don't think many fresh college graduates working in "sales, customer service, management" can afford A GRAND A MONTH in rent.

1. Indianapolis
Average rent:* $625
Popular entry-level categories:** sales, customer service, health care

2. Philadelphia
Average rent: $1,034
Popular entry-level categories: sales, customer service, management

3. Baltimore
Average rent: $1,130
Popular entry-level categories: sales, customer service, health care

4. Cincinnati
Average rent: $691
Popular entry-level categories: sales, customer service, health care

5. Cleveland
Average rent: $686
Popular entry-level categories: sales, marketing, customer service

6. New York
Average rent: $1,548
Popular entry-level categories: sales, customer service, admin-clerical

7. Phoenix
Average rent: $747
Popular entry-level categories: sales, customer service, marketing

8. Denver
Average rent: $877
Popular entry-level categories: sales, customer service, health care

9. Chicago
Average rent: $1,133
Popular entry-level categories: sales, marketing, customer service

10. San Antonio
Average rent: $696
Popular entry-level categories: sales, customer service, management


Screw this list - find the cheapest city you can find and launch an online business. You'll be much happier - believe me.