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How many jobs do you expect that you're going to have to apply for?

This depends a little bit because these days it's seen as like just applying for a job

is pointless because you need to have some kind of reference.

So you should be cold emailing people

and like just talking about their job and seeing if they would be willing to refer you.

But I wouldn't be surprised if I applied to hundreds of jobs. Because I mean, I remember seeing

an Instagram reel of this guy like just scrolling through a spreadsheet of the jobs he's applied

to. And the caption was like 300 applications,

like six interviews, one internship baby, let's go. And that's a crazy thing you think about.

This is Jacob. He's 21 years old, and he lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

And when did you graduate from college?

I graduated this May.

Jacob was a computer science major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which has a great computer science program.

And he actually graduated ahead of schedule in just three years.

What was it like to graduate before your friends? It's kind of a bummer, but at some point I said

it's time to graduate, and if I get a job in Madison and can still spend time with my friends,

that's a lot better than paying a lot of money to spend time with my friends. Jacob graduated early,

in large part to save money.

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