- Admit that you are totally screwed.
- Marginal employment, such as working 14 hours/week, will not pay your rent, but it will keep you in bagels and beer, and the slightly satisfactory knowledge that you are being paid for what unpaid interns do elsewhere.
- Check job listings and websites for your sad, dead industry several times a day. Hourly, at minimum.
- Every time your phone rings, hope wildly that it is an offer to set up an interview. It is probably just another collection agency, though.
- Start applying for unpaid internships. You’re not getting a job, so you might as well build that resume and make some connections for the time when there are jobs again.
- Update/reformat your resume daily. Or hourly.
- Come, slowly, to the realization that you can’t even get an unpaid internship. There’s too much competition. Plus, you’re not eligible for academic credit.
- Take a moment to feel proud: some how, you are still living in one of the most expensive cities in the world, with almost no money.
- Suffer an existential crisis. What is WRONG with you? You are obviously unemployable and have made terrible career choices thus far. Imagine how you will feel in 5 years, when the life you’ve been lead to expect and always thought would just happen will fail to appear. Cry.
- Start a blog. What else have you got going on?
