I just graduated from a master's program. The Evergreen State College was kind enough to bestow on me a masters of environmental studies. That's great, right? I think so, however it was a hard road being that Evergreen is located in Olympia, a town that finally showed me that I can't happily live everywhere and anywhere on earth. Having grown up in Boston, lived in Boulder Colorado, New Zealand, Southern California, Austin TX, and Various other locations for short periods of time, i've been pretty spoiled and loved the hell out of everywhere else I've lived. Until now.
So at this point I find myself living in a town I don't like, without a job and though I could probably get a job working in state government, I've got no desire to stay in Washington itself at this point. At this point my money is running low, and I've been working at getting a job (applying to positions, calling contacts etc... everything the books tell me to do) and have come up with basically nothing at this point except for a couple of phone interviews for a job that I didn't get. This obviously weighs on a person a bit. Is it me? Is it that I don't live where I'm looking for a job? does my resume look bad? Is it because I graduated from Evergreen (that hippy school)? seriously. WTF?
So what's up in the air at this point? I've go about 1 month left on my lease and hope to be moving either to Portland, San Francisco, Boulder, or maybe New Zealand. I don't have a job and will really be needing one before I move or I'm in trouble. In the next 2 months, I'll be living somewhere new and working at a new job (my first out of grad school). Basically my life will look completely different than it does at this point. Completely.
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