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I’m Giving Up on the Fantasy of a “Dream Job”
That’s the state of post-graduate trauma that many of us are currently living with these days
Growing up as kids in America, we were influenced and molded by this notion of landing our “dream job” once we graduated from college.
At a very young age, we were placed on an idealized path to success and all we had to do was get good grades in school, get into a good college, and graduate with a decent GPA. After that, it’s up to us to find whatever that dream job was and thrive.
Sounds simple enough, right? Well, those of us who are post-grads should all know that this is so much easier said than done.
Looking back at my undergraduate days — which has now been almost a decade ago — I was just living for the experience throughout a majority of it. The harsh reality of actually choosing a major and embarking on a journey to land a job within my chosen field didn’t dawn on me until my junior year of college.
And at that point, I was just hoping to finish school in the four-year timeline that I told myself I would. The thought of eventually choosing a career, let alone a career I actually liked, hadn’t even occurred to me.
