As the class of 2015 readies for graduation and the launch of their careers, the outlook is much brighter than it has been since the great recession. The National Association of Colleges and Employers performed a survey nearly 67,000 members of the class of 2014 and the results show that 52.9% of bachelor's degree graduates were employed on a full-time basis by the winter, and 7.3% worked part-time the year of their graduation. This is a significant jump from the doldrums of 2009 through 2013 when jobs were sparse, and in many sectors, nonexistent.

However, the survey also highlighted an interesting trend indicating that an increasingly large proportion of students are not in a rush to jump into “conventional” full-time jobs, but instead, are taking a year—or two—stringing together a few internships, taking time to travel or working part-time as they ponder their future before to applying to graduate school or taking the full-time job.

I thought about this and admit that there is something to be said for “sampling” different experiences before diving into a career track. This reminds me of the closing of Robert Frost's poem The Road Not Taken: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."