A worrying time but take heart

Whilst waiting for my journalism degree results,reading this in the Guardian is rather worrying this morning.

Up to 40,000 of this year's graduates will still be struggling to find work in six months' time, according to figures compiled for the Guardian that reveal the scale of the recession's impact on the class of 2009.
The number of new graduates out of work will double compared with last year if unemployment trends follow those of the last recession, careers experts predict.

But whatever happens and I have some things in the pipeline,I take heart from Seth Godwin who gives some tips for idle hands

* Spend twenty hours a week running a project for a non-profit.
* Teach yourself Java, HTML, Flash, PHP and SQL. Not a little, but mastery.
* Volunteer to coach or assistant coach a kids sports team.
* Start, run and grow an online community.
* Give a speech a week to local organizations.
* Write a regular newsletter or blog about an industry you care about.
* Learn a foreign language fluently.
* Write three detailed business plans for projects in the industry you care about.
* Self-publish a book.
* Run a marathon.

I am not sure about the last one but the others are all good advice and am doing some already.