I realized today that I will take my final midterm tomorrow. This is quite possibly the last midterm I will ever take in my life, unless by some crazy turn of events I decide to go to grad school. The fact that graduation is looming over my head really hit home once I realized midterms were almost over.
Don't get me wrong, I am more than thrilled to graduate. Being done with school is a major accomplishment as well as a relief. It's just that I don't know what I am going to do post graduation. In the short term I plan to continue to work at TRU while I look for a "big girl" job, but I don't know what my long terms plans are. I am starting to freak out that I don't even know what kind of job I want to have. I have been told that I should act my age and take whatever job that sounds interesting to me. Apparently I have my whole life to figure things out and I should just do what I want to do at this point in my life. While I agree with that, it's hard to accept that I spent all this time in school just to get a job that has nothing to do with my degree. I don't want to feel like I have wasted time and money by going to college. At the same time neither do I want to take a job I hate just because it requires a degree.
Although I would love to write full time one day, that is a dream that is far off if not impossible. So for now I will need a job that pays the bills, but still gives me time to write on the side. Hopefully that can be a reality. Many people let their dreams fall by the wayside because of real life and I dread the idea of that happening to me.
If anyone out there on the internet knows what job I should apply for, please help. I am getting desperately scared that I won't know what to do in the near future.
