Adjusting to Post-College Life
Posted by admin on July 27th, 2010 filed in LifeI’m sitting here in my dining room at 11:25am on a Tuesday. In sweat pants. Looking out the window as cars go by. This apparently, is what life after college is like.
Now I know that’s not true. But right now, for me, it is. I have two part-time jobs, one of them being mostly work from the home should I choose. It’s strange.
It’s strange to not have my friends by my side 24 hours a day.
It’s strange to not have every hour of my day planned out.
It’s strange that I can take time to relax on a regular basis and not feel guilty about it. (Still workin on this one.. I was trained for four years to think that relaxing meant you were getting behind.)
It’s strange getting paid to do things I used to do in my free time like checking blogs and social media, studying the Bible, writing, etc.
What was your hardest adjustment from post-college life?
August 1st, 2010 at 3:27 pm
My college and post-college experiences were nearly opposite yours. For the most part, I didn’t have to work very hard in college. I chose to study what came easiest and was most interesting to me. I was good at school, and that had been my “job” my whole life. Assuming some writing ability, being an English major is just plain easier than, say, computer science. With a liberal arts major, there’s no set path after college, and my whole life had been neatly planned out before. After graduation I had to make it up as I went along and work a lot harder. Where I used to get by easily, now I had to be much more of a self-starter, juggle lots of responsibilities and deal with some very difficult people. For a couple years I had pretty crappy jobs, and it was quite a shock going from a place where most people I interacted with were interested in me as a person or wanted to help me, to work environments where the only thing that mattered was if I could do X, Y and Z. In college I had lots of free time, which I mostly squandered. Well, the time spent in close community with friends wasn’t totally wasted, but after college that was gone too. Even though I have a good church community now, everybody still has to pursue their own lives. It’s not like college when we were all just students together, and you could just walk downstairs to be with your best friends. I know there are similarly close Christian communities, but I’m not sure how that would work with a family. I’ve accepted the college experience only happens once. The future will be good, but it won’t be the same.
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