Memoir installment #9

In which I finish college and attempt a career

For a few sparkling moments after graduating from college, I thought I knew everything. I had been rewarded for four straight years for being smart, precocious, and clever, and had come to believe I was special, and that the future was bright. Then I went out and tried to find a job, a place to live, new friends in a strange city, and realized I knew no…