So I've been absent a while from the blog and its mostly because of the fact that I don't have many followers to post for and mostly really because I have no time!!! With senior year of college coming up I find myself wondering if I should maybe take on another year before I graduate, give myself time to build my curriculum vitae or if I should just go on and take my chances with what I have. Only time will tell but its a thought I've been mulling over. However, perhaps one of the reasons I'm mulling this over is because I'm too scared to step out, too scared to rip of the training wheels before jumping into the real world. I'm scared as hell I wont lie about that, and I don't know if I'm ready to take on the real world or not. The idea of taking on the real world makes squeamish and sick at heart, like as if I know I'm going to screw up so badly I'm going to regret it. That being said I wonder, maybe taking on the world can be a good thing jumping in and ripping through it all I might come out bruised but seasoned. Saying it that way scares me as well though, I don't know what to do, I remember my friends feeling lost and scared but I never comprehended the feeling until now, and it's almost scary enough to contemplate staying in school forever....
"However, perhaps one of the reasons I'm mulling this over is because I'm too scared to step out, too scared to rip of the training wheels before jumping into the real world. I'm scared as hell I wont lie about that, and I don't know if I'm ready to take on the real world or not."
ReplyDeleteWhenever you choose to graduate, you're going to feel a little like that. What with the media going off like a foghorn about how bad the graduate jobs market is etc etc, anyone would be scared.
And it's ok to be scared. It doesn't make you workshy, it doesn't make you weak, it just makes you human. It's how you respond to it that matters. Personally, I responded to it by ignoring what the media was saying. And I found a job that I'm happy with.
My sister, she got a 2:2 in a subject that academia loves to sneer at. And boy, she did get sneered at. And she responded to that by losing her temper in quite spectacular fashion and going at her jobs hunt like a Tasmanian Devil. And she found a job that she's happy with.
Whatever you decide to do, ignore the media. Don't let them make you believe it isn't worth trying because failure is a certainty. It's only a certainty if you give up.