Alright, so this is another of those thoughts that someone who graduated college thinks about: the country club lifestyle.

Although I grew up with a golf background with a golf course in my backyard, the country club lifestyle is one I am not familiar with. It's weird to think about, to be honest. If you go back four years ago, I asked if joining a fraternity, or Greek Life, was worth it. Fast forward to now and I can definitely say it was. Yes, it was sort of paying for my friends, but the connections I got out of them were absolutely worth the price of admission.

Now I am asking the same questions I asked myself so long ago, but this time about country clubs. Yes, this makes me sound incredibly privileged to wanting to get into this life, but life is way too short to not doing things that could possibly make you happy. The country club lifestyle sounds like something I want to be a part of, but as I mentioned before, I don't really know much about them.

So what do I know? Like fraternities in college, country clubs are not one in the same. There are different prices, amenities, locations, along with the size and the prestige of the club can sway someone from joining or not. You also have to consider the person that is looking to join the country club and why is that person even thinking about it in the first place.

Let's address that situation right now. I am a 22 year old fresh out of graduating college with enough money that I can self-sustain myself, while still having leftover money to have a little fun every now and again. With no sights on being married anytime in the next century, with a career that's just starting, and to add on the fact I play golf almost four days a week makes me a great candidate for a country club.

Here is where the main problem arises. We all know that joining a country club is not a cheap lifestyle. The bill that comes at the end of the month for country clubs is one of thing, but the initiation fees that come with it are an absolute mood killer. However, when comparing country clubs to something like joining a Greek-lettered organization, it all sounds way too oddly familiar.

The concerns are mostly the same comparing the two, and thinking about it more and more, it just sounds like country clubs are the fraternities/sororities of the grown-up world, and I am honestly okay with that thought process.

Full disclosure, at some point within the next couple of years, I will be joining a country club, not a matter of if, but a matter of when, and which one. Of course, I won't do this until I have money, and for the rest of you thinking about joining one, I suggest the same.

I believe there is still a place for country clubs because like Greek Life, it's just a matter of where you fit in.