For many graduates, finding a job takes over six months after finishing school. Politiken spoke with three whose path to a first ’real job’ didn’t go as planned.

Recent graduate: »Wow, I was so naive and gullible«

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It’s a special day when, after a lifetime of schooling, you hold your diploma in hand and take the first step toward a real adult job. Expectations about the future may have gotten bigger since you were a child being asked: ’What do you want to be when you grow up?’

But the path to a 37-hour workweek with a pension plan is not always straightforward.

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