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Collected Item: “Graduate Entrepreneurship”

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Graduate Entrepreneurship

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Photographed above is R.I Reclaimed craft room and owner, Siena’s, 2020 degree within her current craft room.

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Siena is a prime example of students who are graduating from Universities and are faced with the struggle of finding a job during the pandemic. As a direct response to the lack of job opportunities, Siena has been able to create her own business, despite her film major, in up-cycle fashion. This archival entry presents a realistic and current solution for the generation graduating during the Pandemic, Evaluating their creative ability and applying it to be a possible source of income. Although Siena is still working to make this a sustainable income, she has had the luxury over quarantine to persistently pursue her business. Siena also explained that because she has been pursuing this craft and attempted to make her way within this business she feels as though she has never actually graduated and she has not receive the stereotypical school to work force opportunities.

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#trifting #thriftingfuringcovid #craft #archive #ri #rireclaimed #college #graduate #graduating #milestone

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Siena Filippi

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2020-12-15
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