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Fri, 03-12-10 - 2:17pm by CarleneK
On Graduation
While this is certainly an exciting time of life with the floodgates flung wide open, there is also a certain societal/familial obligation to obtain a job directly after college, and not just a job, but a career job, which are two completely different things. While a job provides a flowing source of income (often in small amounts), it does not provide health care, or other benefits. A career is something consistent, most likely with a $?K attached to it. With the new restraints on young adults obtaining credit cards, there is even more pressure to obtain a secure job before obtaining that credit card. However, I try to keep in mind in whatever actions I choose to do or decisions I make regarding the future that we can achieve brilliance more easily in things we deem worthy than things we are only forcing ourselves to do because they might look good on a resume, or bring us monetary success.
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Wed, 03-17-10 - 08:28 pm by j_ernst
I am in the same situation
I am in the same situation you are in. I'm graduating in June and do not yet know what I'm going to be doing upon graduation. My goal is to, at the very least, have a job to support myself for a year while I apply to grad schools and hopefully get in somewhere. It's terrifying to see my classmates secure "real jobs" when my goal is just to be able to pay all of my own expenses. I think it takes time to establish a career, and I guess I just have to be patient and see what my opportunities are.
Best of luck!!!
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Wed, 03-17-10 - 08:44 pm by CarleneK
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Sat, 03-13-10 - 01:29 pm by KBenardello
Unfortuatnely, not all graduaes find what they want right away.
There is an overwhelming amount of pressure for graduating college students to know what they're going to do with the rest of their lives, even a full semester before the ceremony takes place. People expect students to continue on to graduate school or get a high-paying job with benefits in their choosen field right away. While some students are lucky enough to do this right away, it takes months for most people to find even a part-time job just to pay the bills. It would be great if a glamorous job was handed to every graduating student! But that's not always the case.
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