For some, college life is the most joyful time of your life while, for others, college life is like a four-year prison sentence, and you can’t wait to leave it.
Each year, almost 3 million people in the United States graduate from college. What comes next will change your life, and some of this change can be frustrating and disappointed.
1. Hunting for a Job
Applying for jobs seemingly a desperate mission. For every position you apply, you will need to write a resume and a cover letter because each of them has own requirements and qualification.
This is the moment that you need to be mindful as a recent graduate. When you are just out of college, you don’t have the power of choice when it comes to job offers, you should accept the entry-level positions available to build experience and from there you make your way up.
Not every job you idolize while you were in college is as it seemed, and you might be disappointed, but you will get over it.
2. People will ask about your job
Every time you hang with family or catch up with friends through social media they will ask you questions like “Do you like your job, how’s your job going? What’s news about your job?” etc.
It is something after hundreds of repetitions you will be annoyed, and you will be saying, “it is going fine,” nothing new, yes I like the job for now.
3. Adulthood comes with an obscene amount of papers.
As you become a self-independent, you will realize how expensive it is to be a person in this world, and your thoughts about your expenses are no near what the real-world demand.
You will wonder how your parents manage the household expenses, and you wish they taught you — like car insurance, student loans, utility bills, taxes, etc.
So if you are still in college, take Accounting class even if you not majoring in business or accounting. It will be a helpful tool to use in the real world.
4. Don’t Pay for your Master’s Degree
Many companies offer tuition reimbursement plans. If you are looking to continue with your studies while you are working, have your company paying for you because you don’t want to add on your student loan that you haven’t finished paying for the last four years.
Try to have your company pay for your Masters while you work for them.
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5. Treat email like it matters
Part of the job will be managing emails. You will need to avoid stupid passive-aggressive habits like “CC your superior, or being informal like “what’s up boss.”
Avoid being informal when using your organization email; you have to communicate clearly in your emails, responding to your managers and coworkers quickly.
6. You will find yourself alone as if you don’t have friends
When you leave college, you leave the largest concentration of people of your age. Suddenly you will find yourself eating at a restaurant by yourself wondering where are your friends when everybody is trying to focus on their business.
That’s not a failure; that’s a reality you won’t do anything on Friday night because you will be tired, sometimes you will make road trips to reunite with your friends and spending more time on the phone.
Welcome to the real world, you will experience some ups and downs. As you navigate to this journey take every experience as a lesson just like when you were in college, nothing comes to stay forever, and adulthood doesn’t have a guide book because everyone goes through different experience even though we think we have gone in similar experience but what differs is how we lived it.
Congratulations and welcome to the real world.
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