I haven’t been very happy lately. It’s a nice mixture of life, stress, and not reaching my goals. I’d like to address the last thing. Not reaching or meeting goals, the thing that has turned my stressful life into a little too much to handle.

If you have read my articles before you will know I graduated recently. However, “recently” isn’t very accurate anymore. I am now at the point after getting a degree that I want it to do something for me other than sit in a box in the corner. I didn’t spend 3 ½ years stressing out over classes, grades, and finals to feel so stuck. I don’t like being stuck, but stuck I am.

I have spent the last nine months searching for a new job in my area. I am either underqualified, overqualified, or there are not any openings. Lately it has felt like all that hard work was for practically nothing.

In the beginning post grad life was great! I just worked and started my job search. It’s been almost a year and I feel like I am doing something wrong. I expected it to be difficult to find something, but I did not expect to feel so defeated after all this searching.

Then I looked at my situation differently. Maybe I am just being too hard on myself. Careers don’t fall out of the sky, and eventually something will come along so I can get my foot in the door. I think the best and worst thing about post grad life is learning to be patient and accepting of my situation. Nothing is going to happen overnight. I just need to put the work in and let it get me somewhere.

To anyone else struggling with post grad life try to view the situation a little differently. We tend to be the hardest on ourselves which is never fun. You already put the work in this far so just keep going.