Scott Nicholson is a 24 year-old Colgate alum who’s yet to have a job since graduating college in 2008. He’s famous today not because he’s unemployed– lots of relatively recent grads are sans employment so he’s not special in that respect– but because he’s the main character in a delightful Times story about his journey to find a job that fits the mold of his dreams. The “unemployed” status, you see, is a tool of Scott’s own making. He could’ve had a job– five months ago, the Hanover Insurance Group offered him one as an associate claims adjuster in their Worcester, at $40,000 a year– but he decided to turn it down.

Rather than waste early years in dead-end work, he reasoned, he would hold out for a corporate position that would draw on his college training and put him, as he sees it, on the bottom rungs of a career ladder.

A lofty goal but as he is living at home with his parents in Grafton, Massachusetts, rent and expenses free, Scott figured he had all the time in the world to make it happen. That was until a certain couplea jerks decided to start fucking with his master plan. Continue reading »