Matt Amedeo, a graduating senior from Boston College, did everything right. He studied hard, graduating with a strong grade point average. He was a Division One student athlete. He worked various jobs on campus. After interning last year for the technology company Toast, he received a healthy offer. All of his dreams and plans were coming together and he was launching a secure and prosperous career.
Then the pandemic struck, and his world was shaken. “I had my life set up, my dreams, my career, then the pandemic threw a monkey wrench into everything,” he told me in a recent conversation. Matt turned frantic. “I needed to find myself a secure future. I applied for countless jobs every single day. It came to the point where I was doing two or three interviews a day. But everything was frozen.” What was particularly difficult was being told that he was competing with thousands of recently laid-off workers with more experience. “That was emotionally draining,” he said.
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