One in five English Phd’s find stable university jobs, and the degree won’t help outside the university.

2. Skip the law-school track

People who play sports earn more money than couch potatoes, and women executives who played sports attribute much of their career success to their athletic experience. You don’t need to be great at sports, you just need to be part of a team.

3. Play a sport

People who play sports earn more money than couch potatoes, and women executives who played sports attribute much of their career success to their athletic experience. You don’t need to be great at sports, you just need to be part of a team.

4. Take an acting course

Amos teaches executives to communicate authentically so that people will listen and feel connected. You need to learn to do this, too, and you may as well start in college.

5. Separate your expectations from those of your parents
Otherwise you wake up and realize you’re not living your own life.

6. Define success for yourself

Society defines success very narrowly. Rather than defining success as financial gain or accolades, define it in terms of individual interests and personal happiness,”says Robbins.

7. Learn to give a compliment

The best compliments are specific, so “good job” is not good. Practice on your professors. If you give a good compliment the recipient will think you’re smarter: Big payoff in college, but bigger payoff in the work world.

8. Start a business in your dorm room

It’s cheap, Google and Yahoo are dying to buy your website, and it’s better than washingdishes in the cafeteria. Note to those who play poker my online income system until 4a.m.: Gambling isn’t a business. It’s an addiction.

9. Work your way through college

Each experience you have can grow into something bigger. A great bullet on the resume for a junior in college.

10. Make your job search a priority

Jobs do not fall in your lap, you have to chase them. Especially a good one. Use spread sheets to track your progress. And plan early.