AFTERMATH OF UNIVERSITY

 

My life has felt like a sequence of stepping stones lately. completing primary school so I could learn the fundamentals for secondary school, then taking the WAEC to earn the necessary credentials to attend university. Now that I'm 19 years old, I'm still trying to convince myself that because I finally got into the university that I always wanted to go and am now on my way to some fantastic profession by clinging to my notes on the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Except that I don't know how to advance in my career, and I don't think I'm alone in that.

 

I understand that people discover something about which they are incredibly enthusiastic through time and come to terms with the paths their lives are on. We all start university with aspirations of becoming, among other professions, actors, lawyers, and doctors. But in my situation, I started university knowing nothing other than that having a history and international studies degree would make people believe that I wanted to work as a historian or a diplomat, neither of which I believe I did.

 

I'm continuously paralyzed by anxiety due to today's highly competitive employment market and difficulties with bias. Even if a position is found, it may demand four to five years of experience, which I don't currently have. Which just made matters worse because I was left with no choice but to settle for something less after enduring physical and emotional strain throughout school in the hopes of landing a job doing what I love.

 

We all have dreams of a better life and a finer tomorrow, but unlike many others who have gone through these stages of my life, I wish not to become a catalogue of impossibilities. As I walk through the final phase of my university life, I am aware that nothing ruins a man more than the dirty receipts of all that he tries to be but failed at, a life imagined but never born.

 

The point is that in this new movement into new horizons and far destinations, in a perfect world, i believe  we should be able to be able to support ourselves by doing what we love, but these days it appears that most people settle for whatever job they can get their hands on that would give them a daily income. 

 

To find a career I enjoy by the time I graduate from college is the objective, though. Finding a profession can be difficult and seem impossible, but I like to think that if you work really hard at it, you can still find one. What do I intend to do with my life after college? I'm not quite sure. But you can know that whatever it is, it will be something I enjoy doing.

Do you have a plan for your future yet?

In the comments, please🙏!

Love to you all😍😍.