Tag: working
I Am Having A Quarter Life Crisis
Hello. My name is Sam. And I am having a quarter life crisis. And not, like, a casual quarter life crisis where I am all sad that blacking out on Wednesday is no longer a regular thing (or a thing at all). A quarter life crisis where I am in dire need of a change, [...]
The “Retailification” of Post-Grad Life
Most students get jobs to pay bills or to have beer money. Many choose to work in retail—an unforgiving field but one where jobs are easy get. Students, like any other group that’s unfortunate enough to work in retail, abhor the industry. Retail is awful. I worked in retail at times in my life. In [...]
The Working World: Expectations vs. Reality
Recently, my coworker and I were talking about our expectations vs. reality when it came to our first jobs out of college. We quickly realized that we shared an unrealistic view of what the working world would be like, partially due to TV shows and movies that depict jobs in an inaccurate manner. Off the [...]
The Post-Grad Burn Book: 10. Job Searching
For 20-something years our lives were structured around this little thing called school. We spent our weekdays in class surrounded by peers, our weeknights doing homework and going to practice (and drinking when we got older), and our weekends socializing. During Summer, holidays, and breaks, we had time off, but we always knew that in [...]
The Post-Grad Burn Book: 7. Professors Who Made False Claims About Post-College Life
Dear Professors Who Made False Claims About Post-College Life, You might have taught us definitions, the importance of media, what a business is, how to successfully write papers, and what books from the 1800s were trying to tell us – but you forgot to mention there’s so much more to learn in life. One thing [...]