Item
Graduate Entrepreneurship
Title (Dublin Core)
Graduate Entrepreneurship
Description (Dublin Core)
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.
Photographed above is R.I Reclaimed craft room and owner, Siena’s, 2020 degree within her current craft room.
Date (Dublin Core)
December 15, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Siena Filippi
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST241
Partner (Dublin Core)
Suffolk University in Boston
Type (Dublin Core)
photograph
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Cities & Suburbs
English
Business & Industry
English
Education--Universities
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
thrifting
thrifting during COVID
craft
archive
#RI
#rireclaimed
college
graduate
graduating
milestone
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
thrifting
thrifting during COVID
craft
archive
#RI
#rireclaimed
college
graduate
graduating
milestone
Collection (Dublin Core)
College COVID Stories
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
12/16/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
01/29/2021
03/03/2021
10/24/2021
This item was submitted on December 16, 2020 by [anonymous user] using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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