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In recession, one road led back home to Missoula, Montana

She graduated magna cum laude from the George Washington Business School in May, applied for 30 jobs at some of the nation’s best-known companies, and it went nowhere. After visiting the campus career center and redesigning her résumé, she applied for 10 more jobs. Still nothing. The lease on her Foggy Bottom apartment expired in June. There was no place to go but home, with a collection of rejection letters and a haunting sense of betrayal.

For 23 years, she had advanced down America’s path to success — perfect grades, a $200,000 college degree, a folder overstuffed with business cards — only to have it dead-end back where she started.

"What was the point?" she asks.

By Eli Saslow
Washington Post Staff Writer

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/21/AR2009112102372.html?sub=AR

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