"So What Are You Doing After Graduation?"

"What are you doing after graduation?" is the famous and frequent question I get now. But honestly, I ask myself the same question everyday. Graduation is considered the most depressing time for a college graduate. Some people have to return home to a strict household, some people are unsure about their future, and some are afraid they may never get that job. The school year is winding down and graduation is fast approaching. After May 9, lives will change forever and some people will begin to see the real world for what it really is. No longer will some of us feel the comfort under Tuskegee's wing. This will become the time when life will truly show who has what it takes. No longer will it be about who has the best poster or policy paper but rather who has what it takes for the position. Who has that drive? I have started applying for different jobs and I have come to learn that it is not about what degree you have or how cute your resume looks but rather how you market yourself. Of course your degree and resume matter. Most of the time employers are not fully reading your resumes but rather how determined, focused, and assertive you are. In the classroom, it can be easy to outshine seven other people, but in the job force, you are going against hundreds even thousands of other people for one job. (I learned that by applying for the state jobs) What your resume says, someone may have said something even better on theirs. I think this is the best time to build not only education and experience but mostly confidence. Confidence plays a major role for me, if I am confident about who I am and what I can do, I am more likely to persuade someone else the same idea. Some people end up in jobs that have nothing to do with their degree then there are those that do not know what to do with their degree. Overall, it is important to think about what one has passion for. With passion in your work, you will be willing to give it your all. I believe post graduation will teach people alot about who they truly are. For some it may teach them that they took college for granted. It is nothing worse then to see someone your age talk about how they wish they had stay in school or attended in the first place. Some of us may change then some of us may just stay the same. Regardless, I think everyone will sit back one day and remember and miss the college days.