Doris Jeong moved to San Diego five days after graduating from the University of Washington Seattle in 2011 to work as a paid intern doing administrative work. She still kept applying for full-time positions.
But when the bills started piling up, she had to move back to Seattle with her parents. She worked as a temp, grading tests for a few months. She was miserable.
"I thought I was never going to find a job and that all my efforts going to college and studying hard ... was pointless," she said.
But one of her many job applications led her to a temporary contract position in human resources with the U.S. Navy. Two weeks into work, a permanent job within the Office of the General Counsel for the Navy opened up and she got the gig.
"It took me basically a year to find this job," she said. "But now I have my foot in the door and will continue to work hard never forgetting how blessed and thankful I am."
