Hasta La Creative!

Kelly EidsonAn economic hand choked space exploration and formed a bottleneck, shrinking its size and leaving the recent grads hanging out to dry. Though they had worked hard and were qualified, this generation simply couldn't get around the fact that there were too many spacemen, and not enough rockets. Their degrees weren't worth the paper they were printed on.

There's a recession bottlenecking ad agencies, too. There are thousands of recent grads (like me) trying to get in, just as thousands of agency pros are getting kicked out. Some of us will catch a break and squeeze through the neck of the bottle; many will not.