A Month from Graduation
Posted in Life on Saturday, November 11, 2006
There are just 30 days left until I graduate from college and I really can’t wait. I’ve been suffering a bit of senioritis lately, making it hard to get motivated to complete the backlog of assignments I need to complete before the end of the semester.
A lot of people I know _don’t want_ to leave college, which I can understand for most students. I’ve been kind of masochistic in my college experience so I really didn’t enjoy it that much. Working around 35 hours a week, still taking a full load, and completing two majors in 3.5 years doesn’t leave you much free time for a social life. I have lived pretty comfortably and made plenty of money, though, and ended up paying for college and living expenses entirely myself after my first year.
People keep asking me what I plan to do after graduation. Well, I’m tired of sacrificing my happiness for money, a degree, etc, so I’m going to move to my favorite vacation spot, Utah, in mid-January to finish out the ski season as a ski bum. I may take a part time job to defray some expenses, but I’ve got some money saved up that should last me plenty of time to find a full-time job. I really don’t have time to recruit this semester, so I’m going to start applying shortly after graduation and then use Utah as my home base for interviewing since most of my desired careers are in the West and don’t recruit nationally. I’m also going to work on getting my private pilot’s license, another thing I’ve wanted to do but haven’t had the time for in Austin. Once the ski season ends, I should have a full time job and want to pursue some entrepreneurial ideas in my spare time. I’ve never really worked just 40 hours a week; in the summer when I didn’t have class, I would work 60 hours a week, so I’m going to need something to keep me busy with all that free time.
Most people I’ve talked to have been pretty supportive of me taking a few months of ‘retirement’, including my parents, but there are some that have issues with it. I think there are a lot of people that have sacrificed happiness for stability, income, etc. I don’t want to be the kind of person that realizes at age 45 that they haven’t done anything they wanted to in life. Maybe I’m blindly optimistic, but I hope that if I follow something that makes me happy, the money will come. We’ll see how it goes…
So if you want to go skiing next semester, I should have at least an open couch, and hopefully a spare bedroom to lend you. I’ll show you where the deep powder is.
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