Graduating college sounds is quite the accomplishment, or so I’ve been told. I now have a degree from a reputable college, so one would think I’d be at the top of my game. I’d have a job, a place to live, and a new life ahead of me. Well I will have all of that, but not right now. I don’t have a job yet and I am still living at my parents’ house. You think it’d be fun to not have any responsibilities and living and eating rent-free. That is a nice perk but it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.

I am one of those people that has to be doing or working towards something constantly. Goals and to do lists are like candy to me. I like to have things to do and a direction to go towards, and this is the first time in my life when I don’t have one laid out for me. I don’t have to go back to school in August. I can do whatever I want. I have all kinds of free time to work on what I want to work on or not work on.

This sounds like a dream come true right? Well I thought it would too. I know that I love to have things to do at all times but I figured it’d be nice to take a break. It’s good to take some time off and have time to yourself after college. People spend the first part of their life so it’s hard when you don’t have that anymore. For the first time I don’t have anything holding me down or tying me to one spot.

The thought of not being tied down is amazing and I do like the feeling of being able to go anywhere, but here’s the catch. I don’t have any money to go anywhere. I have a degree, but the way my line of work functions is different than most jobs. I have to audition in the hopes of getting a call back in the hopes of getting a job. You don’t think I tried to get a job this summer? I did, but it’s hard. I’m not sure if it’s harder than an accounting or marketing major, but it’s really tricky.

What I am getting at is while it’s great to be this free and open, it’s also really hard. As I said before I am a person that likes to be busy, so I have been applying for jobs and have some projects going on but it’s different than college. College is hard, but graduating is harder. I have this new freedom that is wonderfully terrifying. The transition into post grad life isn’t easy, but it’s not the end of the world.