First off if you are congratulations to you, I will be in 4 and a half weeks. It will be nice to know that it’s finally over and I don’t have to pay anymore tuition and know that my 10-12 week summer job money stays in my pocket. Also get to look forward to 5 or 6 weeks off to decompress before I start at my summer job for one more year in the third week of June. Can’t wait for that time to have some fun and get out in the warm weather and do some sight seeing. I guess after that it will be kind of interesting to see where things go from September onward. I don’t actually have a job lined up but I do have this summer season job that pays very well. I have a few connections that may be able to get me something at least. I will be graduating with no debt, I’ve paid my own way through school. I’ve lived off campus with my parents still to avoid having to pay for overpriced housing on campus, but I’ve paid for all my tuition. I guess things kind of worked out really well and everything fell into place for me at the right time as far as my major goes. Here’s my story.
I started off horrible my freshman year. I was an A and B student in high school and when I hit college I fell apart my first semester and barely got C’s. I was probably in the wrong major. I thought I wanted to be a Vet but I just assessed what reality really is. Not everyone can work in medicine, I struggled badly the first semester in the major classes and so I got out when I could. Also thought about what it would be like to have another 4 years stacked on to the 4 years I’m about to complete. There wasn’t even a guarantee that I would get in with how competitive vet school is and then I would be talking about moving and having to pay possibly around 200k in school if I could make it through. With how crap the job market is, I just couldn’t see myself ever recovering from putting myself that far in debt and so I opted to switch to business. First was Accounting (hated tax) so finally settled on Marketing. I was lucky enough that the business school gpa was only a 3.0 when I started now it’s like a 3.6. I guess what I’m getting at is don’t be set on one thing, you can switch and still graduate in 4 years. I’ve switched majors twice and am still on track. I’ve been told it’s a broad field and that there are all kinds of opportunities with it, both good and bad I guess. Although my cousin studied finance and now works in sales.
I guess what I’m trying to say is I really still am unsure of what I want to get into and kind of worried I don’t have anything lined up. On the positive aspect, my parents are not in any hurry to make me leave (but I also am not going to allow myself to be under their roof 10 years from now either), I have no debt upon graduation, I have a summer job that will pay me around $700-$800 a week for 2.5-3 months roughly. The negative is that I don’t really know what I want to do still and I don’t have something lined up after I graduate. My parents do have some connections that said they could probably get me in the door, but I’d imagine it would be some kind of entry level thing which I’m ok with. I guess the best thing for me to do is just to roll with any opportunities that I get. I’ve never actually interned anywhere but I’ve worked for this company for the past 5 years. It’s in the farming field so I don’t know if it’s actually considered a real job, but I’m pretty much running everywhere in the morning to get my product and then selling it to customers face to face. Kind of unusual, but I really thing I’ve got some great experience doing it in just knowing how people work. That’s why I guess I got into marketing because I wanted to learn more about the customers that I deal with.
Anyways thanks for reading my story feel free to share your college experience and graduation excitement and anxiety.