I hate to say this but I have too...
The economy is getting ready for another step down. Many Baby Boomers about to retire will lose a large chunk of their retirement, or find that it won't be enough with their longer life expectancy, depletion/bankruptcy of Social Security funds, and inflation.
What this means is many Baby Boomers will be seeking jobs themselves, and with their work ethic they will be hired because they know how to work, whilst college grads are relatively inexperienced.
Baby Boomers will also be settled, have everything they already need in a place to live, paid off homes, and a car, whilst recent grads will have only maybe 1 of these things at best. So the Baby Boomers can work for less, and they know it, and employers know it.
If you are young, you need to start working now and saving up what you can and getting out of debt. That means any job, no matter how low paying it is. Yes, to minimum wage, yes to Military. Yes to anything that brings any money right now.
In a couple of months to about a year, the economy will hit its second leg down, and you will see unemployment north of 20 percent by then. Thankfully, this will probably be the last downleg before the economy picks up again, but to get through it you're gonna have to do EVERYTHING and work hard, and for many that still won't be enough.
The economy is still working all of these bad loans out, its got a ways to go, but we're probably a third to half way through it. This is just like the Depression, except we've learned serious lessons since then and it will probably only be half as long. The depression lasted 12 years, this one will last 6. It started in 2007 when home prices collapsed, it should be over with by 2012-2013.
You need to work now because there is maybe a year left to make money and save it up, after that you will have to wait it out until the economy picks up again, and likely it will be a slow pick up. Many people are going to come out of this recession/depression in severe debt with no assets. You do not want to be one of those people, because if you're 25 now, it will take a long time to recover as the economy does from 2013-2020.