This is one thing. I'm David Rind, and looking for a new job, good luck. Now, seriously, good luck.

The length of time that it took this time was shocking to me. Stick with us.

On Monday, giant excavators roared to life in front of the east wing of the White House

and started to knock it down.

Past presidents have undertaken renovations at the White House before, but nothing like this.

It'll be one of the great ballrooms anywhere in the world. It's about $300 million.

It's set to do many, many things, including meetings of foreign leaders, including the honoring

of foreign leaders.

You can see this.

President Donald Trump says this new ballroom will be funded by himself and many other wealthy donors,

including companies like Amazon, Mehta, and Lockheed Martin.

Critics say Trump demolished a part of the people's house without going through the customary approvals.

And even some Trump supporters concede, at the very least, it's a bad look,

especially during a government shutdown.

Remember, roughly 1.4 million federal employees have either been furloughed or are working without pay,

thousands more have been straight up fired, and that doesn't even include the doge cuts from earlier this year.

But government workers aren't the only ones facing a career crisis. Back in like May or even earlier than that, I kind of envisioned myself having a job already.

I mean, it's October.

This is Ellie Bryan. She's 23 years old.

Just graduated from Indiana University in the spring.

She wants to work in social media marketing.

And she didn't wait for graduation to start applying for jobs.

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