Navigating the Post-College World

Exploring the Post-College World Exploring the Post-College World This is a visitor post by Kirsten Anderson for Student Stories. It's April 2013 and I am anxiously anticipating my graduation service on the eighteenth. Things will be unique; I will never again be an understudy slaving endlessly at assignments and can at long last would what I like to do; accomplish objectives that I relinquished so as to achieve an advanced education; I can't stand by to be done. Quick forward a couple of months and I'm wanting to be as yet an understudy. Exchanging my Spring Breaks and three-day seven days class plan for working all day at a coffeehouse was not my concept of post-graduation life. No doubt, post-graduation life was not what I anticipated. Saying this doesn't imply that that graduating wasn't what I needed â€" I simply had various desires. Most understudies hope to find a salaried line of work deserving of a four-year degree. In any case, in the present conditions of this nation, that isn't generally the situation. Truth be told, I ended up working with high schoolers and individuals who had never set off for college when I originally graduated and started working at a café. As much as possible gripe about not finding my fantasy work straight out of school, these littler employments have permitted me to begin contemplating where I need to go and what I might want to do. Truth be told, in the previous year I have figured out how to purchase a vehicle and set aside cash while as yet setting aside a few minutes for myself. In saying that, I have discovered that the significance of having a work-life equalization couldn't be increasingly conspicuous in keeping one's mental soundness. In spite of the fact that I work 40 hours per week, I have not just featured as a supporting job in a play, however have figured out how to go through seven days in the mountains skiing with my father and sibling, and invested energy with companions all the time. While a significant number of us graduate and are disappointed with our first post-school employments, I genuinely accept that these occupations are a significant piece of our excursion to pick up understanding for our future professions, yet to discover who we are as an individual. For example, I have discovered that banking is presumably not in my future, and this has moved me to consider what I might truly want to seek after. Then again, being a teller has permitted me to set aside and deal with my cash in a capable manner. In saying this, I urge you to take a gander at these employments as venturing stones for your objectives, dreams, and yearnings; learning open doors for future undertakings; as opposed to dissatisfactions. So my tips to you are: Make a rundown of objectives and a timetable to achieve them. Search for chances to learn in the occupations paving the way to your profession. Make a work-life balance by seeking after a side interest or energy (ie: photography, heating, composing, and so forth.). System: converse with everybody you experience â€" a ton of times individuals land positions through associations. Try not to surrender â€" in light of the fact that you aren't the place you expected to be after school, doesn't mean you won't arrive â€" show restraint. About the Author: Kirsten Anderson is a 22-year-old alumni from Macquarie University in Australia where she initially went on trade and later moved to in the wake of going gaga for the nation. In the wake of graduating she has been both a barista and a teller while setting aside cash to move to Atlanta, Georgia where she might want to seek after a profession in film/TV. She appreciates voyaging, warm climate, playing tennis, and investing energy with loved ones.