A few weeks back I was at my summer internship, and there I met two new volunteers. They were both Temple University students who had decided to volunteer for credit and had signed up to work at the camp for a few weeks. We sat for a while and we were talking college related things like what our major was, what year were we, and what we were thinking about doing after we graduate. I told them that I wanted to be a screenwriter and the other girl said she wanted to be a doctor. Then the last girl told us that she was a business major but she didn’t know what she wanted to do after college. She said that she was 24 and that she chose that major because it seemed like the best choice at the time, but now she said she’s starting to regret it because she really isn’t sure what she wants to do now. I’m going to be honest with you, when I heard her telling her story, it kind of made me well…nervous.
Don’t get me wrong I’ve always had a passion for writing. As a kid I would read tons of comic books and use my imagination to come up with different stories. But I guess the thing that made me worried when the girl told me her story is that even though I know what I want to do with my major, I still am not entirely sure on how to get on that path. This girl majored in business (which is a very popular major to get a job in) and she still was scared of what her life would be like after graduation. I don’t know, I guess I was just scared that when I graduated and times got hard I was going to end up losing my passion for writing.
The thing is it’s not an uncommon thing to do as a college kid either. I feel as though every college kid who’s about to graduate is a little scared for the real world because they don’t fully know what’s in store for them. I know people who have had their dream jobs planned out their entire lives and are still nervous about graduating because they don’t know if it going to work out exactly how they planned it. Let me just say this. The people who think their step by step plan to getting to their dream job will work out perfectly, guess what? It probably won’t and you know what…that’s okay.
Look as much I want to my plan to become a screenwriter to go perfectly, I have a good feeling in my gut that it won’t. I’m not saying I’m giving up on my dream. Oh hell no. All I’m saying is that I’m ready to face a lot of ups and downs and I’m completely fine with that. Someone once told me that success doesn’t happen overnight and if you really want to achieve a goal, it’s all about hard work and patience. Now I know for a fact that I can be an impatient person. Hell I don’t even have enough patience to wait a whole two minutes for my hot pocket to get done. But when it comes to my goal of becoming successful, you best believe I’ll be patient and put in that hard work to get there. I think that’s how a lot of college kids should look at graduating. Yes there will be some hard times. Maybe you won’t start off at your dream job right after college and will work at Wal-Mart or something. But that doesn’t mean you should stop chasing your goal. Also when you finally reach your goal, you’ll be able to look back on your life and smile at the journey you had to go through just to get there. So to wrap this up fellow college kids, in the words of the great philosopher Tupac Shakur, you gotta keep ya’ head up. Peace!
