How does the fact that job market was in bad shape when narrator graduated from college affect and events of My First Day on Job Use evidence tex?

The narrator mentions feeling anxious the the prospect of graduating to college during a recession: "...and then the bottom fell out of the job market".

While some students found work in their dream industry, the narrators friends went into "insurance, data center, or real estate". The market dictated that they move home with their parents, or work as baristas while applying their skills toward careers outside their areas of interests. Even after the narrators internship,they felt that their chances finding success and financial security in publishing industry is small. While at the interview the narrator "braved it out "despite their self-doubts due to market competition during job interviews. Their friends encouraged to apply of positions and to keep a positive "fake-it-'til-you-make-it approach".