A Car, Some Cash and a Place to Crash: The Only Post-College Survival Guide You'll Ever Need [Paperback]

Rebecca Knight (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 19, 2003

HEY GRADUATE, ready to take on the Real World? You will be after absorbing the wisdom and wit of this comprehensive field guide to life after college. Learn everything you need to transition smoothly from carefree co-ed to a grad with a plan.

* Land a job-- a GOOD job--and an enviable apartment.
* LIVE LARGE no matter how small your salary.
* Make friends and INFLUENCE BOSSES.
* RETIRE EARLY.

All your most pressing questions answered-- New car or used? Debit or credit? Paper or plastic?-- especially those you've so skillfully managed to avoid until now.

Don't read A Car, Some Cash, and a Place to Crash for shopworn advice on how to "succeed" according to some formula. Instead, gain valuable perspective on doing it your way from professionals who remember their own first years out. Each chapter also links you to the most helpful sites on the Web so you can personalize your search for the very latest data on, say, the career of your choice or the city of your dreams.

Best of all, your comrade and coach through all this excitement is, herself, a recent college grad who knows exactly where you're coming from and where you want to be.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This book will teach you everything you didn't learn in college!"--Makaela Steinberg, alumni-relations director

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"This book will teach you everything you didn't learn in college!"--Makaela Steinberg, alumni-relations director

HEY GRADUATE, ready to take on the Real World? You will be after absorbing the wisdom and wit of this comprehensive field guide to life after college. Learn everything you need to transition smoothly from carefree co-ed to a grad with a plan.

* Land a job-- a GOOD job-- and an enviable apartment.
* LIVE LARGE no matter how small your salary.
* Make friends and INFLUENCE BOSSES.
* RETIRE EARLY.

All your most pressing questions answered-- New car or used? Debit or credit? Paper or plastic?-- especially those you've so skillfully managed to avoid until now.

Don't read A Car, Some Cash, and a Place to Crash for shopworn advice on how to "succeed" according to some formula. Instead, gain valuable perspective on doing it your way from professionals who remember their own first years out. Each chapter also links you to the most helpful sites on the Web so you can personalize your search for the very latest data on, say, the career of your choice or the city of your dreams.

Best of all, your comrade and coach through all this excitement is, herself, a recent college grad who knows exactly where you're coming from and where you want to be.

Rebecca Knight graduated in 1998 from Wesleyan University with high honors and a degree in American government. Since then she's worked at the Washington bureau of the New York Times and the New York office of the Financial Times of London. Her columns and articles have appeared in various newspapers, and she has appeared on CNN and ABC World News Now. For fun, she reads, skis, hikes, and travels.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books (April 19, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579546269
• ISBN-13: 978-1579546267
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,309,457 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars MEDIOCRE AT BEST, June 27, 2004

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John Q. in NYC (Manhattan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Car, Some Cash and a Place to Crash: The Only Post-College Survival Guide You'll Ever Need (Paperback)

Well, it's an OK book, but not earth shaking.

I, too saw the USA Today review and picked up the book for a graduating relative. I read it before giving it to him and found it lightly amusing with decent information. 'Mediocre' describes it best.

What I find odd is that nearly every single review on here has similar verbage with the same number of stars.

Of course, authors would never post fake reviews to pump up their Amazon ratings. But it is strange that such an average book would have such stellar reviews with no dissention.

I'm just sayin'.

Good luck.

-JQ

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm buying a copy for everyone!, April 19, 2003

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MC (Berkeley, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Car, Some Cash and a Place to Crash: The Only Post-College Survival Guide You'll Ever Need (Paperback)

I recently read Ms. Knight's book and, although I am a few years out of college, I still found her thoughtful advice to be extremely useful. Now that my brother and two cousins will be graduating from college in a few short weeks, I am buying a copy for each of them. In fact, I'm hoping that my sister hastens her graduation plans so I can buy her one too!

Had this book existed when I first graduated, I suspect that I would actually have money in my 401K, a roommate whose company I enjoy and I might be in a career with enormous potential instead of back in grad school.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars ALL THE 5 STAR REVIEWS ARE MADE IN THE SAME 2 WEEKS!, November 19, 2005

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Sally (Tallahassee, FL, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Car, Some Cash and a Place to Crash: The Only Post-College Survival Guide You'll Ever Need (Paperback)

This is a books whose rating are most certainly pumped up by many optimisitc reviews giving 4 or 5 stars in the same 2 week timeframe. It really isn't as good as other books in this area. Look up other 'after college' books.