I am not writing this because I have the answer or tips to figure the questions out. I am writing this because I need something like this in my life. Just the other day I was talking to one of my friends about what we plan on doing after graduating. She has already started apartment hunting and that is the last thing that is on my mind. I have two concerns after I graduate from college: finding a job and paying back loans.

I do not plan on going to graduate school right after I am done with my undergraduate work because I look at graduate school as a plan B. If I do not like the profession that my degree gives me, I can always go back to school and study something else. Because I am keeping graduate school on the back burner I will have to start paying back student loans soon after I graduate. Being that I am going to graduate in the fall, it will be a little difficult for me to find a teaching job starting in January. Most teaching jobs start at the beginning of the school year. I can always substitute teach, but I do not think I can live off of a few hundred until the next year.

I cannot even start apartment hunting because I have no clue where I will get a job teaching. I would hate to get an apartment in one city just to get a job in another. I do not want to break a lease or drive back and forth.

I think I am so worried about this because of the unrealistic portrayal of life after college that we see. You do not get a job immediately after we graduate. If you do not already have an apartment you might end up living with your parents again. I did not understand why my brother continued to live with my parents after he graduated from college but now I understand.

I have no clue when or how will start adulting. For right now, I plan on taking everything one day at a time in hopes that God will have everything fall into place for me.