Today is August 26th, 2016 and I started my official first day at my new job. I graduate back in May and have been working as a server at Cajun Steamer Bar & Grille during my "career" job search. I graduated with a degree in Mass Communication and have been doing my job search in that field. I have basically applied for every single TV News job in the state of Alabama.
So that being said, I have not had a lot of luck in my search. I have received great advice and good wishes from friends and family. Mostly they said "it takes time". Well it does. You aren't just going to get a job the minute you graduate, especially if you didn't do an internship (which I didn't). I have had to learn how to accept that my TV News job wasn't going to come over night and I was going to have to work a little harder and look a little longer. Maybe spruce up my resume tape, re-do my image, and add some life experience to my paper resume.
So that is what I have done. However I never thought my life experience would come from my new job. I didn't think this time last year that I would be where I am right now, and to be honest I never thought I would be in job I'm in. The past two weeks I have been prepping myself and my classroom for 15 energetic, fun-loving, four year old children.
You read that correctly, classroom, children, four year olds.... I am a pre-k teacher at Oak Mountain Presbyterian Church, their TreeHouse program to be exact. I work with another teacher in my classroom and we co-teach these little youngsters. I'm not going to lie, I wasn't sure if I was ready for this job. I was scared to work with so many children at one time.
To put it real simple I've never seen myself working in a teaching environment much less working with children. Today I had my first day of meet the teacher and Monday is my first day working through my lesson plans with the children and my co-teacher.
This has been a difficult transition for me because I would give anything to work in TV News and use the degree I spent so long to complete, but sometimes God says not right now. Sometimes he puts things in your life that you weren't exactly expecting. I believe that is what has happened with me. He has chosen a job for me that will help me grow inside and out. One day TV News will become a thing for me, but not today and I'm okay with that.
Don't get me wrong I'm not settling for just any job and I'm not giving up on my dream. I am just pursuing a new thing while I stay on my path to find that job. Like I said, this hasn't been easy. I've spent many nights up late crying about how I don't understand why I'm not getting hired and how I have worked so hard for this. I know now that things take time and I have my whole life to find and work in my "field". Honestly I am just happy to have a job that isn't in the food industry.
