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Will Grim Job Prospects Scar Today’s Grads? USATODAY.com Wonders

Campus Entrepreneurship

.”A lot of us are silly optimistic, sometimes,” says Amanda Frattarola, 22, who graduated from the University of Vermont in 2011 and found a job as a health and wellness coordinator in Arlington, Texas. Will many of them be able to actually grow high growth firms or will they become freelancers, guns for hire, and permanent temps?

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

While I was contracting for the US Army in Arlington, VA, I ran into a problem: there were no existing systems capable of processing a massive amount of data streaming in in real time. I became a business owner because I knew the specific areas I was passionate about and felt the rest was bogging me down from living out my true purpose.