Here I am a college senior with only a few months holding me back from graduating and entering the working world. But am I going to enter the working world or am I going back to college? Will I move away from home right away, or wait a few years? Needless to say, I have no plan.
I'm constantly being asked "What are your plans for after college?" and giving some reasonable excuse that people want to hear are the best I have to offer currently because apparently saying "I have no idea" is not good enough. When I make the mistake of telling someone I honestly have no clue, I am usually then put in two different situations. I am either going to play a game of 20 questions letting people "think" they are helping find some job that interests me once I graduate, or I am given the look of "You just spent four years in college and you have no plan in life?"
As much as having a plan is beneficial, it also just seems to put more stress on me. Look, I can either have this amazing plan in life that could not follow through at all, or I can take life as it comes and wing it. Although winging life is not the best option, it's currently the choice I am making.
Maybe it is the generation I grew up in that has me taking life as it comes and having a carefree spirit of life, but if anything, I do not regret not having some type of plan. With not having a plan I can consider every option that comes my way in life.
I know what I want and what I don't want, but I don't know what I want to go out and get. I know I don't want some nine to five job that has me sitting at a desk all day because that's just not my style. I know I want to take a job that could potentially allow me to move. There are options. There are ideas. But the fact of there being no plan should not make others think that I may be a failure.
There are many of us college kids with no plans in life. We have ideas. We have options. We have dreams. And if someone questions us for not having a plan, then it is their own loss for thinking we need one. With not having a plan in life, I am more willing to try anything. I am more open-minded to different job ideas and opportunities. I will not have some plan that I think I need to follow in life hold me back from living. Sometimes people get so caught up in what they think they need to do and what will make them the most money in life instead of doing what they truly want.
I want a job that will allow me to grow and seek more from life. A job that will challenge me. I want a job that will leave me telling stories to my grandchildren one day. Not having a plan is not something to doubt me about, but to support me on. I have ideas and a thought process, but there's no need to help me figure out some "plan" to follow.
I just want to experience life and figure it out along the way.
