If you graduated before 2010, chances are you remember the Great Recession. Chris invested 3 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars into law school and graduated in 2008 at the top of his class with a job offer at one of the biggest firms in the city. But just months after starting his job as a junior associate, he, along with nearly everyone else in his class, was laid off. With little work experience and the competition of 2009 and 2010 grads, Chris couldn’t find another position. Melanie got her MBA in 2009 with a job offer to work at one of the largest investment banks in the country. But the offer came with a condition – that she start working in 2011. Again, with over a hundred thousand dollars invested in business school, it wasn’t the ROI she was expecting.