Time for a fun giveaway from one of my sponsors! Please just leave a comment below telling me your post college fears to enter...
College teaches us many things: how to make and support academic arguments, the importance of a room of one's own, that rhyme about beer before liquor.
But college doesn't necessarily teach us how to deal with The Real World. There are no classes that cover 401ks, credit card debt, live-in lovers, networking or making friends once you're out of the dorms. And isn't that a pity? Four years, fifty thousand dollars and zero courses on how to navigate the next sixty years of your life.
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The course includes:
The course includes:
* 8 weeks of fresh posts on a private, passworded blog
* 60-page workbook
* 4 Vokle webinars
* a private message board
* 70% less post-college stress (okay, I made that up)"
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So the giveaway item would be: a place in the Post College Survival Kit Ecourse (www.thepostcollegesurvivalkit.com)
Post College fear: debt, debt and debt. I'm already in so much debt, I'm afraid I wont be able to pay it all.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest post college fear is not loving the job my degree enables me to get.
ReplyDeleteOr deciding to go back again. That would be terrifying.
My post-college fear is that I'm already in over my head. It's been a year since I've entered "the real world" and I'm faking it 'til I make it, but every step I take feels unsteady and uncertain. I'd love the clarity of knowing that I'm heading in the right direction and not towards the precipice of failure.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest post-college fear is becoming someone I'm not just to fulfill what society (and loan payments) believe I should be.
ReplyDeleteMy post college fear? This may sound corny, but it's "not following my dreams because of mundane practicalities"! Because life tends to get into the way when you're making plans... I'm 2 months away from graduating and I've already taking some huge risks: I've currently abroad for 3 months to do research for my thesis, earlier this year I've started my own magazine (on gender, sexuality and power relations) which I'm currently trying to turn into a quarterly international publication... and it's hard next to graduating, work and activism/volunteering! I've got the drive, a great part of the knowledge and a fantastic amount of people who support me - but oh my, where are the mentors?? Where are the role models who tell you that it's okay to take a chance and postpone doing a master's degree --- and put your ambition and academic knowledge into action in real life?? While maintaining your sanity, some food in your cupboard and some time to sleep at night? That is my fear - that life will get into the way of my dream!
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Finding a job that I am passionate about!!
ReplyDeletemortgages and 401ks. i have no idea what any of that means!
ReplyDeleteMy biggest post college fear is not getting a job or getting a crappy one that I won't enjoy doing.
ReplyDeletexx, Meg
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ReplyDeleteMy post college fear (and reality) is thinking I really wanted to do something and then when I get there, it's not what I actually want. What do you do then!?!
ReplyDeleteMy biggest fear is that I won't make it in the real world. And will have to rely on petty jobs to get me through life
ReplyDeleteMy first fear was never being good enough in my field of study, so I went to grad school for something completely different. After that, my fear was having enough time for myself (nevermind my friends!) between working 2 jobs and driving a ton to get to them. I'm in a better spot now, but my fear is still that I might someday lose my job, never get my debt paid, never afford a house, put off starting a family until it's too late, etc. I've been out of school for 3 years and have had a full-time job with benefits for 1, and still don't feel like a grown-up at all.
ReplyDeleteOh, easy. I graduated from a very small liberal arts college last week, and I've been afraid/nervous for the same thing for the last four years: failure. I knew when I began school that I was following an almost impossible dream when I decided to major in theatre. I comforted myself with the knowledge that I was following my dreams, even if my family wasn't the most supportive. Now that I've graduated and am facing the "real world" for the first time, I'm realizing that because of the horrible economy, very few people in the arts sector is hiring, which makes me feel like I've wasted the last four years of my life, even though I love nothing as much as I love working in the theatre.
ReplyDeleteWhat do I do now? Do I stick with this job where I'm doing an internship? in fact will they employ me? or will I leave everything and go try my luck somewhere else?
ReplyDeleteI don't want to stay in my parents house anymore! Oh no what now?
My head is a mess... I tottaly need this!! xD
my biggest post college fear? besides everything, I'd have to say finding my niche in the creative world. how do i publicize my art, my passions, the things I make? how do i find a job that supports this? how do i get back on my feet when i get rejected...because let's face it...9 months of applying for job after job after job...and still no job.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest fear is that I'm faking it all: my job, my romance, my friendships. It's at though everything I've done since graduating college last fall has been utterly passionless and inauthentic.
ReplyDeleteI'm graduating this summer and my biggest fear is matched with many other people: how the heck am I going to pay off my student loans? :(
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