With the economy still in the doldrums, many highly educated college graduates are still stuck in low-paying jobs and wondering when they’ll be able to put their degrees to work. These smart-but-stuck grads are so plentiful they’re now being lumped into a group called Generation Limbo. “We did everything we were supposed to,” said 23-year-old Stephanie Morales, who graduated from Dartmouth College two years ago, but is now working as a waitress earning $2.17 an hour plus tips. “What was the point of working so hard for 22 years if there was nothing out there?” Some students see this lack of serious career opportunity as an opportunity in itself. Stephanie Kelly, a 2009 grad from the University of Florida, wanted to get into advertising, but is enjoying her time freelancing at a Secret Santa website. Amy Klein, a 2007 graduate of Harvard, has had trouble breaking into publishing, so she’s now playing in a punk rock band to play the bills. “I’m fulfilling my artistic goals,” she says. “Plenty of people work in bookstores and low-end administrative jobs, though they have a Harvard degree,” adds Klein. “They are thinking more in terms of creating their own kind of life that interests them rather following a conventional idea of success and job security.” (New York Times)