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POST-GRAD
Graduates skip nine-to-five in favor of adventurous jobs
Even with perfect cover letters and impressive resumes, students may have difficulty securing a job in a struggling economy. Some students are choosing unique-post grad experiences that offer adventure in place of the traditional nine-to-five job.
Go to college, earn a degree, find a job. These are the expectations of most young adults.
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Carlos Betran, a recent graduate from Venezuela, is filming and producing "The Slum Culture," a documentary about his hometown of Caracas. With degrees in journalism and film and theater, Betran uses the skills he learned at the University to
"I have met people I never thought I would with amazing, and often times shocking, stories. I have also seen things I never thought existed in this society," Betran said.
Organizations at the University also offer students opportunities for uncommon post-grad experiences.
investigate why children in this area are turning to violence and crime.
University Peace Corps recruiter Ben Weischman said the program gives graduates a chance to spend two years in foreign countries in the context of meaningful service work.
Weischman said that when he graduated,he wasn't sure what path his life would take.
"Peace Corps gave me the chance to step back a bit, though, and not
focus so much on the embedded cultural norm here in America to have one's life all 'figured out' after graduating from college," he said.
Rittenhouse is in debt, doesn't own a home and has only 10 vacation days a year. She said she's considered becoming a blackjack dealer in Las Vegas or working at a ski resort in Colorado, but still hasn't found the nerve to do it.
After graduating in 2009, Danielleittenhouse made landing a job her first priority. Though she said she felt lucky to be employed, she wishes shed taken time off to do something fun.
"Sometimes I think I would be better off just flying by the seat of my pants and taking jobs as they come
along and moving around," Rittenhouse said.
Watkins Health Center psychologist John Wade said finding a job after graduation caused increased anxiety among students.
"Anxiety can happen if there is a discrepancy in what we thought would happen and what we're getting," Wade said.
Students can explore their options by talking with University advisors and attending the various career fairs held on campus throughout the school year.
— Alison Cumbow contributed to the reporting of this story.
NATIONAL
World War II Museum features animals of war
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — Smoky the Yorkshire terrier, Lady Astor the pigeon and a host of horses and mules whose individual stories are lost to history are among war heroes and heroines featured in the latest exhibit at the National World War II Museum.
"Loyal Forces: The Animals of WWII" will run July 22-Oct. 17, featuring the four kinds of animals most often brought into the war, as they were used in all five theaters.
"There was a great love and loyalty between the soldiers and the animals they worked with," said registrar Toni M. Kiser, who created the exhibit with archivist Lindsey Barnes.
The exhibit opener may seem odd to people used to thinking of the Coast Guard as offshore duty in cutters, patrol boats, helicopters and
airplanes.
In the mezzanine, where a Sherman tank and a half-track represent the period's most common cavalry, will be a figure of a Coast Guardsman on shore patrol with his horse. The shore patrols were set up after German saboteurs twice landed on American beaches.
Nearly 3,000 horses, provided by the Army Quartermaster Corps, let the shore patrol cover much more ground. "The U.S. Coast Guard used more horses than any other branch of the U.S. Military during WWII," the title panel notes.
"Luckily, before they could wreak havoc they were caught," said Kiser. "But there was this great fear that we really had to protect America's coastline."
The first thing visitors will see in the special exhibits gallery is a German reconnaissance horse and soldier, representing the European theater.
Germany's 1st Cavalry Division
But most supplies and a great deal of artillery were still horse-drawn, and a mounted infantry squadron patrolled about six miles in front of every German infantry division.
pursued the Soviet Army through the northern marshes of the Soviet Union, but was disbanded and mechanized in November 1941, largely because horses needed extensive supplies and attention, and Adolf Hitler considered them outmoded.
"These mounted patrol troops
North Africa and the Mediterranean are represented by pigeons.
were referred to as the 'eyes and ears of their units," an exhibit panel explains.
The museum's artifacts were part of the reason for including the German horse, Barnes said. "We have a really great saddle" and a dagger from the infamous 8th SS Kavallerie Division Florian Geyer.
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