To all of you college grads who have had to revert back to your childhood bedrooms—complete with pastel walls, action figures and middle school awards adorning the walls—Bloomberg Businessweek feels your pain and wants to offer you a gift to help you on your way.
The twelve free issues to their magazine in either print form or the downloadable iPad version is the perfect way to get rid of the rooming-with-your-parents blues and perhaps spark “original ideas and actionable insights they can use to get hired, get promoted, and most importantly, get their own place.”
With only 16 percent of students graduating in 2013 proudly proclaiming that they have already found a job, that leaves a lot of college graduates who will have time to sit back and relax with their free copy of the magazine and one of Mom’s sandwiches. Reading about successful entrepreneurs and the latest billionaires is sure to do the trick to get those twenty-somethings out from their parents’ homes.
Bloomberg Businessweek is even offering family and friends the option to send out ecards with the subscription to their favorite jobless college graduate. The cards, which rival Hallmark’s sentiments, range in encouragement from “We’re not ashamed of you, but we’re getting there” to “I never thought I’d go for the tall, dark and unemployed type.”
For those parents who don’t know how to work the Internet, the ecards will eventually be available in hard-copy forms from stationary company Papyrus.
But don’t worry: Bloomberg Businessweek isn’t exactly blaming these home-bound college graduates for their situation.
“While giving millennials grief is highly entertaining, we want to acknowledge that the woeful state of the economy is not their fault,” the website reassures. “These free issues and ecards are intended to help a generation that could sure use a hand, not blame them. Millennials are, however, entirely to blame for saran-wrap-tight jeans.”
