This is basically just my ranting, so if you have to listen to me all the time anyway, then you can just skip this.
What is happening with my life? I mean, really. Someone said I am approaching my mid twenties and it FREAKED me out. I mean, slight conniption. I told myself that I would be good to go with a job and a home (outside of mom and dad’s) within a year after graduating. And what do I have now? About 2gs saved, a slightly smaller beer belly and not really any better off than I was a year ago. I'm about to sign up for Real World…
I can do without most of the fun ADULT-Y things for now, but a J-O-B is priority number one. I mean, I work… but I want something that has a career path of sorts, or at least is rewarding ya know? I could also try and start making some more friends since half mine are leaving the state, but that sounds like a lot of work… So I will keep focused on the job. Anyway, I was already having trouble what I wanted to do with my life because there are just SO many options! Development Coordinator, Executive Assistant, Reality TV Star, the list goes on… Now there are TOO many avenues to get to one type of success or the other, and I don’t know which one I want to take! So now I am just sitting here like a dunce thinking about it. Well, balls. I mean, yah I went to the UW for my undergrad but what do you do after that? There is grad school or a certificate program, internships, traveling, volunteering, part-time jobs, full-time jobs, having “connections,” working on the corner… how are you supposed to know which of these amazing options is the one that will get your “foot in the door?!?!” Everyone claims they have the key to success, but let’s get real here. If Snooki can write a book and then go and SELL that book …surely I should be able to figure something out.
But honestly, besides tormenting myself daily about finding a job, the best is when strangers downsize you publicly. “I saw your UW t-shirt, you go there?” “Yah.” “What was your major?” “History…I also minored in Human Rights (I feel like that will get some Seattleites off my back).” “Oh… So what do you plan on doing with that? Teaching history? haha Teachers don’t make much money ya know.” (clever) “Uh, no I was not planning on teaching actually…I would really like to work for a nonprofit” “Oh… so, you plan on being poor then?”
Every recent grad feels GREAT about that conversation. You PRAY that people are not going to ask you what you want to do with your life b/c you really don’t know. In fact, I have been out of school a YEAR now, and I STILL don’t have the slightest clue.
Also, who are these people? You do not know what I’m looking for, or what makes me happy! I'm sorry but I can’t stand it when people put me into a box before I have even had a chance to see what I can do. I am sick of all the parade-rainers! Have a little faith please. Let us figure life out our own way before belittling us or crushing our dreams. If I want to help people and make a modest amount of money doing it, encourage me. If it ends up making me insanely happy, let it. If I end up HATING working at an NGO and love my corporate desk-job then tell me where I can get a sweet suit. Basically in the end, no one likes a hater.
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