There are now many more college graduates working than there were then.
Anecdotal evidence of graduates working in bars and as receptionists is well-known.
Did the graduates working on Gravity know it would go on to have so much success?
In all, Blackwell says that there are some 90 institute graduates working in local and network news around the country.
Top maths graduates working in French banks have pioneered some of the market's most complex equity derivatives.
The number of UK medical graduates working in Australian emergency departments has risen 60% in recent years.
"I heard one of the graduates working for Joe Pitts is making, like, thirty-two thousandollarsrs.
In 1980, 65 percent of recent high-school graduates working in the private sector had health benefits, but, by 2009, that was down to 29 percent.
Low wages and insecurity in competitive job markets – be they creative or in the third sector – are extending further into graduates' working lives.
Recession has hit their pay packets the hardest and it is not uncommon to find graduates working in a bar on a zero hours contract.
"We are advocating that by 2020 we should have 60% graduates working in nurseries, while the rest should be trained up to NVQ level three" she said.
