Congratulations. You’ve graduated!!
Now what the hell are you going to do?
You spent three to four years pretending like you knew where you were headed, but now that no one is looking, you’re being faced with the hard truth: You have NO IDEA what you ought to do with your life.
* studied for nearly half a decade and come no closer to understanding what your life ought to be.
After graduated,
Forget everything that you've learned.
Some of the information that you found in books may be useful, everything else, on the other hand — all the other habits you created, all the things that you are used to and the life that you are used to — can basically be FORGOTTEN. The world that you enter after college is a much bigger bubble than the one that you are used to.
The life that you have been living for the past four years must be left behind you and doors are opening to a new journey. Now it’s time to choose a path actually worth walking.
Don’t be too eager to jump into the workforce if you don’t have to.
Most people are excited if they’re “lucky enough” to land a job straight out of college. Think about it – what are the position that is meant for you?The truth is: jumping into a job simply because it was offered to you can only end into three ways:
1. not the right job for you and you soon quit, possibly with a non-compete hanging over your head for the next year;
2. it’s not the right job for you and you end up hanging around for too long wasting your precious time;
3. the luckiest person who ever lived and started your journey from the best place you could start it.
You may not be able to reach your goal from the start, but where you start can very well decide whether or not you will ever reach your destination.
E.g. Study Architecture doing admin work = it won't lead you to become an Architect.
It is better to take the dead-end job if it brings you closer to your goal.
You’re always being graded, you just don’t get a report card.
You’re going to have to work for idiots.
It's true. Not only do they not know how to manage a team, they are almost certainly – idiots. Depending on where you’re working, you have a different probability of getting stuck working for a moron - it don’t mean someone who is uneducated. There are countless amounts of degree holding idiots out there.
Stupid people are a facet of life – you can’t avoid them. Because these individuals tend to have a higher than normal level of obedience, they are likely to hold higher levels of authority – owners and CEOs trust these sorts of individuals because they’re loyal. Which means you have to listen to an idiot tell you how to do a job that you know more about and are better at.
Life only gets more complicated and more difficult after college.
After high school, we knew we were going to go to college/university for four years. Then we graduate from college, reach the top of that ladder, and sometimes find it very difficult to figure out which direction to head next. We run out of runway, are being forced to fly, and never even bothered to question where it is we’re heading.After college, no one will tell you what you should be doing because you’re supposedly supposed to know that by now. Unfortunately, most people graduate more clueless than when they started.
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