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Image by The New YorkerSure we all know a fellow student who is somehow avoiding the inevitable – maybe your roommate is backpacking across Europe all summer, or that cute girl in your history class is doing time with Ameri*Corps. But when you’re asked the all too common question, “what are you doing next year?” your version is completely average – moving away to take on an entry-level job and essentially start life all over again, only to reach one glaring conclusion – THE REAL WORLD SUCKS! College life was a piece of cake compared to this!Well, you’re not alone. That very same scenario is what the vast majority of recent grads go through and it’s exactly what happened to me. So I decided to launch www.realworldreally.com to pass along the knowledge I’ve gained – for what its worth – on my journeys through the post-graduation “real world” of applying for and securing a job, moving into an apartment with my girlfriend, buying a new car, getting a cat, supplementing my minimal income and attacking my mountain of debt. Sound familiar? Well than good, you’ve come to the right place.

About The Authors:

Luke:

My name is Luke Livingston; I’m twenty-three years old and I graduated from Clark University – a small liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts – in May of 2007. Since then I have been fumbling my way through this thing they call the “real world” – working full-time in advertising sales in Portland, Maine; a mid-sized, very twenty-something-friendly city (about 45 minutes from the town I grew up in, for the record) that I am proud to call home.

In my spare time, when I’m not writing for www.realworldreally.com or www.blogaboutbeer.com, I brew my own beer; play Ultimate Frisbee in the summer and snowboard in the winter; juggle; watch the Boston Red Sox and obsess over baseball; study entrepreneurship, technology and the Internet; camp, hike and generally enjoy the great outdoors and all this wonderful state of mine has to offer. For even more about me, check me out on Facebook here, or on MySpace here. Cheers.

Nate:

My name is Nate Cleveland and I am a 2007 graduate of Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts with a degree in Political Science & Government. After graduation, I began the job search in earnest from my parents couch and have been working full time since August in Springfield, MA for a non-profit agency promoting college access and affordability issues.

Over the course of this year living outside the safety net of college and my parents I have managed to pay off over $4000 of debt (including owning my own car!) while still finding time and money for leisure activities and not eating Ramen noodles 3 meals a day. While not working or writing, I enjoy reading books, running and watching sports; I may or may not be too heavily involved in fantasy baseball as well.

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