High hopes, dashed dreams: Class of 1999 recovers from dot-com bust

…To survive the workplace now, many young people have had to start over on the bottom rung – not exactly the position many expected to be in five years after graduation. According to Alexandra Levit, a Northwestern University graduate who recently wrote the book “They Don’t Teach Corporate in College,” her age group has aspirations that are “way out of whack with reality.”