The great thing about a year-long grad program is that it's only a year long. The bad thing is that, well, I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up and am suspicious that I won't be any more employable this summer with two degrees than I was last summer with one. Oh, the nails that will be bitten.
But here's what I'm trying to map out. How do people get jobs? Is it a top-down thing, you pick a city and apply to any places you can find that make sense? Is it bottom-down, pick a job title and throw your CV against the whole wall of the country and see what sticks?
If you do move, how long does it take to make real friends - not just convenience friends or polite work friends? Will they ever be as good as your friends back home? Where do you find them? I need an equation here.
When do you decide that you can forgive yourself for uprooting your boyfriend and taking him with you? When do you decide that it's not something that is going to get taken with you at all?
And if you decide to stay in the place you already know, at what point do you stop feeling as though you're somehow limiting yourself?
These questions are not rhetorical. Send algorithms for contentment my way, please. I have a graphing calculator and everything.
3 comments:
Oh the post graduate headache. :-( I don't know any of these answers but they are all the same questions I am sorting out in Spain as I tell myself this is the year, I am applying to grad school, I am moving to Chicago, I am NOT going to wait tables... I keep telling myself that you can always find friends by why then did I not make any in 4 years of college? Why can't we just take comfort with us and compromise nothing?
As far as I can tell it's one of two things. Although typically never at the same time: knowing the right people and how much you want it. I've had right around 20 jobs, so I would say I'm an experienced job searcher. For more information, please contact me. I have plenty to say about this.
I come to you with no graphing calculator. I decided to throw my CV out the window and France fell into my lap like the glove you thought you lost and while looking for other things 6 months later you find it under your bed (i just read that and realized how awful a comparison that is). I too have started the nail biting for next year. When i first got here i started talking about the difference between circumstantial friends and friend friends when my two roomates asked the same question but just to confused looks.
So Evie I guess what I'm trying to say is that I have no fucking clue.
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