Choices

What to do...what to do?

I have to figure out what to do with my life...do I take on a research opportunity that may or may not pan out that could or could not help me get in to grad school?  Will that overload me even further?

Do I graduate in December?

Do I do an internship?

Do I keep doing all the volunteering that I am ALREADY doing?

Can I even find a job once I graduate?

What do I do with all of the dreams I have in my head that are not coming true?  Do I hold on to those or do I let them go?

How do I accept that my chapter one is not the same as your chapter twenty?  That our lives were always meant to be different and to have different challenges?

Someone help me figure it out.

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  1. CamilleMay 3, 2013 at 4:41 PM

    I read your May 3rd post first, but I still think there are some good questions in this post. I can't answer the questions for you, but I'm a big fan of holding onto dreams and working towards them. But then again, I dropped law school the second time it didn't pan out and found a whole new (and much better for me) route that I love.

    Internships help a lot, not just for grad school but for getting jobs (because they usually offer awesome, specific experience in a field), so it might be worth it to do an internship before you graduate.

    If you can, try to interview for career-style jobs before you graduate (it reduces stress after graduation), but depending on the field that's not always possible. I do know of some rehabilitation facilities that hire off and on in the general area, if you are interested in something like that. One of my friends works at one in the Springville area. Another option that would kind of go with the field is doing habilitation or respite care for children with special needs; there's usually more need than people in that department. Anyway, I feel a little rambley now, but I hope that offers some ideas. Feel free to email or fb me if you want some more advice related to graduating and finding jobs (like things I wish I knew before I graduated). You can do it!!!

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