  I got this in my inbox today: I am a recent graduate from W&L class of 2004 , and I found your information on the Collonade Connections. I am currently looking for a job in DC and noticed that you work as a Media Assistant in the Office of News and Public Info. I would love to speak with you at your convenience to ask about your time since graduation and your current job. I would love nothing more than to get into the Communications and PR field. I majored in Journalism/Mass Communications and plan on taking graduate level courses at George Washington University in Marketing.
Any help or advice you have to offer would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your time, and I would be more than happy to call you during the week if it suits you. Sometimes I really hate these letters, like the one I got from someone scoping for internships who had no clue what I did. But the recent grad seems earnest enough. Plus, I like to help the recent grads as much as possible, since lord knows no grads back then helped me and it's hard enough.
But what do I tell her? "I despise my job, my B.A. is worth nothing, and go work for a big PR firm if you really want this? " Seems kinda cruel. I don't want to be the one to burst the bubble. It only reminds me of three years ago, when I had planned to take over NYC when I moved there in October 2001. I never moved, I never took over NYC, and I'm still doing jack shit. Me and my open, oozing wounds are going to now go wallow in the salt mine now.&nbsp; 
