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This would be a great place to post a picture from our weekend of celebration for Julian’s accomplishments at IIT, but I left my computer at home so I could focus solely on the family and our time together. I have written this note in advance and scheduled it to post while I am away. Trust that we are enjoying a fabulous Sunday Brunch in Chicago before saying our last congrats to Julian and heading home to leave him in Chicago for a couple more months. That will give him some time to enjoy his surroundings, free of any scholarly demands on his time and slowly wrap up this phase of his life in the big city. He plans to return to the twin cities and find a place to live with some of his old buddies. I haven’t heard yet what leads he may have on getting that first job after college. I keep seeing visions of Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate” being given advice like, “Plastics!” I’m not worried that Julian will have too much trouble landing a job in the field of computers and networking in which he has studied. Time will tell whether he will be granted the luxury of picking from a variety of options or will need to accept a lone opportunity that arises in this time of slim job pickin’s.

All that time of looking forward to getting done with college, and now it’s like jumping out of the frying pan, into the fire. Welcome to the job hunt!