{"id":1565,"date":"2016-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.simplifimoney.com\/blog\/life-after-college-roadmap\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T17:50:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T17:50:22","slug":"life-after-college-roadmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/life-after-college-roadmap\/","title":{"rendered":"Life After College Roadmap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>College can be the best years of your life. But what happens after graduation?<\/p>\n<p>With the tough economy, increased costs of living, and outsourcing of jobs, what&#8217;s a recent graduate to do?<\/p>\n<p>We partnered with prominent blogger and author of Life After College,  Jenny Blake, to develop a post-college decision making roadmap. Whether  you live at home, are job hunting, or not sure what to do with your  life, it may be a good idea to look into <a href=\"http:\/\/quicken.intuit.com\/\" class=\"imn_interlinked\">personal finance<\/a> software and start brainstorming and planning your future.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t met Jenny yet, she has quite a story to tell. She  attended UCLA and left halfway through her junior year to join a tech  startup. After experiencing the \u201creal world\u201d, she returned to college  and graduated in three years with a degree in political science and  communications with the following distinctions: Phi Beta Kappa, Magna  Cum Laude, and College Honors.<\/p>\n<p>During her tenure at Google, Jenny specialized in training, coaching,  and career development. More recently, she took a leap of faith and  moved to New York to pursue her coaching and speaking career full-time.<\/p>\n<p>Jenny has been featured on Forbes, CNN, US News &amp; World Report, and was recognized by Suze Orman as a leader among Gen Y.<\/p>\n<p>More than anything, Jenny is proof that your destiny is in your hands.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/life-after-college-roadmap-infographic_0-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Life After College Roadmap\" width=\"660\" height=\"12478\" \/><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College can be the best years of your life. But what happens after graduation? With the tough economy, increased costs of living, and outsourcing of jobs, what&#8217;s a recent graduate to do? We partnered with prominent blogger and author of Life After College, Jenny Blake,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Life After College Roadmap | Quicken","_seopress_titles_desc":"College can be the best years of your life. But what happens after graduation? With the tough economy, increased costs of living, and outsourcing of jobs, what&#039;s a recent graduate to do?","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-relationships"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/life-after-college-roadmap-infographic_0-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}