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Life After College

Life after college manifests different for everyone. Your background and current circumstances are determinant factors, partially. I want to know

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Personally, I received many congrats but not much guidance.

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I’ve graduated, with an internship that pays, (barely) but this is supposed to catapult me into SUCCESS, right? My Communications/American Sign Language degree and concentration has set me up for the rest of my life, right?

Girl, if you only knew what was to come!

Here are some things I wish someone/anyone would’ve told me about Life After College:

  1. Don’t rush into a Graduate Program without clear vision.

Which is, exactly what I did. Two months after walking across the stage with a BA, I was enrolled in a MBA program. I felt as if I had to keep going. “A Bachelors degree is not enough…” I told myself.

At first, I was headfirst into my graduate program. Then, I realized, “You have monthly rent now, not a dorm, you have student loans, you need a full time job like yesterday“. God works things out for us even when we have no clue what we are doing. My enrollment in the MBA program landed me my first salary position as an Office Manager for an Oil and Gas company. It was an ideal, first-job-out-of-college position. I learned and grew a lot. The money afforded me to move into a safer neighborhood.

However, the demands of running an office made my GPA suffer. I had to take a break from graduate school, to pay bills. My vision wasn’t clear. Don’t rush into a Graduate Program without clear vision.

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2. If you go into a career-field as a back up choice, meaning the field was not what you went to college for, You WILL be unhappy.

My Bachelors of Arts was in Communications with an emphasis in Public Relations and a language focus in American Sign Language. What did that mean for my career path? In my naivety, I expected an unpaid internship to manifest into my dream job, which it did not. Plan B: office management. While the communication and organizational skills I acquired in college made the job easy, the hours and needs of everyone in the office drained me in many ways. So, as plan C, I decided to become a teacher. Why not? I’d worked as a substitute, after-school program tutor and babysitter in undergrad – Teaching couldn’t be that hard.

Teaching was the most socially rewarding, mentally draining, financially costly, emotionally stressful – career I tried. I did not research or even anticipate the non-instructional duties and responsibilities demanded of teachers, especially at the elementary level. If you go into a career-field as a back up choice, meaning the field was not what you went to college for, You WILL be unhappy.

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The video below is what ACTUALLY happened to me after college. Perhaps, my case is a bit extreme, but God put me through this because he knew I would find my voice one day and share to help others.

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We all go through things, find someone willing to share with you that you can share with and learn from.

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4 responses to “Life After College”

  1. Yea college doesnt prepare you for what come after, but Trying to figure it out thank you

    1. It truly does not but sharing with others and learning from them (while praying), WILL. you got this, okay?

  2. Your article helped me a lot, thanks for the information. I also like your blog theme, can you tell me how you did it?

  3. Your article helped me a lot, is there any more related content? Thanks!

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About The Author

Briana Derry, MBA is a passionate writer, researcher, and freelancer with a passion for learning and teaching others to take a BreeziDeezi approach to life, career, and their pursuit of the present.

Fluent in American Sign Language and constantly learning, Briana has served as an Academic Advisor, Public Educator, Digital Media Manager, and Mayor’s Intern. She loves to help people with their academic progress by assisting with writing. 

For business inquiries, email Briana.mba@yahoo.com.

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