What was the last school you attended? How are you still using it?
If it was college, whether for an undergraduate, graduate degree, or no degree, does that school know where you are? Are you in touch with your alumni office? Is that office helping you find a better job?
If you are not enlisting their aid, you are not getting a benefit that you or your parents paid for. A good placement office should be in touch by email or newsletter or other publication with as many graduates or attendees as possible. And there should be networking opportunities. If you live in a metropolitan area, there should be a regularly scheduled meeting for alums in that area.
If there is no such thing, someone needs to start one, and that someone might be you. Contact your college’s alumni relations to find out.
Embarrassed about your employment situation? Many people are. You may feel like an insecure 20-something again, and it need not be that way. Yes, there are those who will come and flaunt their success to the group. Some were always like that and always will be. But you may reconnect with a friend or two, or make a new one. You will find people eager to share business cards (don’t forget yours). And you just never know what might happen. You can always leave if nothing is happening.
Do you have a story about an alumni gathering that might encourage others? I’d love to see you write it here.
