" What do you do with a B.A. in English,
What is my life going to be?
Four years of college and plenty of knowledge,
Have earned me this useless degree.
I can't pay the bills yet,
'Cause I have no skills yet,
The world is a big scary place.
But somehow I can't shake,
The feeling I might make,
A difference,
To the human race."
- "What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?" Avenue Q
How often lately have I felt this sentiment. This opening song from the musical Avenue Q is so fitting to my life right now. Here I am with a degree, finally, and not sure what I want to do with it.
How is it that some people fall into these perfect and exciting jobs? Some people just are in the right place at the right time. Some just trip over it. Some even find the job, don't want to take it and later accept it only to find out it was a dream job! WHY CAN THIS NOT HAPPEN TO ME??
While doing job searches on the internet, there is nothing but crap out there! There are jobs that sound like fun and that would be interesting, but they are all requiring 5+ years of experience or some requirement that I have never heard of. Where are the interesting jobs that pay well and people love? Am I just looking in the wrong places? Have I just been mistaken and there really is no job like that out there? Or am I just destined to be in a boring office job doing paperwork for the rest of my life? Is there really more to life after a college degree than I was thinking? or am I just going to have to really take a 50% pay cut to enter into the post college workplace? Could it be I went to the wrong University? or decided to major in the wrong area?
Speaking of the wrong University, I recently (and embarrassingly am admitting it now) went to go see Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 . It was here that I realized how people in movies always go to some fancy college or university. No one in the movies go to UNLV, University of Michigan, or God forbid, Community College. They all go to Brown, Yale, Harvard. Why? Are these places so unattainable, like the experiences in movies, that we have to dream of them as well? and are they that much better? Obviously the jobs you will get just by attending one of these places will be far better than the average person. And those of us who attended an average University will have to work a lot harder to make the incomes those elite students will be making, but why rub it in our faces when we should just be being entertained? Sorry, just a side rant!
But really. What do you do after college especially when you are not sure what you want to do? If anyone really knows, let me know!
1 comment:
You'll find your dream job, Stevie. Network, network, network...is all about who you know and how you leverage those relationships! Remember that some of the happiest times were when we were broke, broke, broke....which is pretty much how I feel right now!
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