I graduated in '08 competing for entry level jobs with all the recently let go jr employees with 2+ yrs experience for the same positions in the recession and was underemployed at a big box while job searching for over a year. A few years later while hunting for a better job, hiring managers seem to have all forgotten that time period, and would be unsettled seeing either a gap between education/work history or that I went to work retail after getting my bachelor's.