So College is over; I'm out, and I feel like I have no applicable skills, no path to follow, no nothing. Did anybody else experience this after school, and if so, how long can I expect the crushing depression to last?
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It took me just under 2 years to find a job somewhat in my field. Of course, I think things have gotten a little better since then (I graduated in 2002).
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You could always do like I did and sell used cars for a year and a half while I was looking for a job during Bush Sr.'s recession.
On second thought...don't do that to yourself.
On second thought...don't do that to yourself.
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I think I would have felt the same, but before the last quarter even began, I took an art history job at school as a lark...and ended up working there for a couple more years before finding something else. It was a good job, I spent a lot of time in Asia, but it wasn't what I wanted for a 'career.'
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Neither slave nor tyrant." - Basque motto
"Neither slave nor tyrant." - Basque motto
When I graduated, I was in a similar situation, though I wasn't fully aware of it at the time. I thought I had "applicable skills," but for the past 20 years, I've worked in a field that has absolutely nothing to do with my degree.
Yes it's scary to have "no path to follow," but it's exciting as well. You have opportunities open to you that a 48 year old (like me) simply doesn't have. If I want to pursue an opportunity that will take 12 years to pan out, I have to take into account that I'll be 60 in 12 years.
I make a decent living, and I have a path to follow (straight to retirement). But I'd give it all up and gladly start from scratch with "nothing" if I could be 22 years old again.
Yes it's scary to have "no path to follow," but it's exciting as well. You have opportunities open to you that a 48 year old (like me) simply doesn't have. If I want to pursue an opportunity that will take 12 years to pan out, I have to take into account that I'll be 60 in 12 years.
I make a decent living, and I have a path to follow (straight to retirement). But I'd give it all up and gladly start from scratch with "nothing" if I could be 22 years old again.
Dob
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