I've had success with corporate accounts since 19, but it can become a major struggle. Drivers under age 25, even executives, often either can't rent cars or face surcharges, though some rental companies waive youth fees in corporate accounts. Ted Collins, who turned 25 last month and works in San Francisco at a venture-capital company, found out the hard way the firm had no arrangement allowing him to rent. He turned to cabs, the subway and an uncle's car when a car-rental representatives in Boston said no.
Jobs nonetheless beckon computer-information grads.
At the University of Oklahoma in Norman, students with averages in the lowest quarter of the class are getting two or three job offers, says Richard Van Horn, a management-systems professor. Mr. Perkoski, who happens to have a degree in management information, finds that even he gets job offers.