so, i just graduated, but i so want to just do nothing for a while what gives? im trying to find a job, been on a lot of interviews but nothing yet, and i need to make money. other than that though, i dont wanna do like anything haha
Find something you think you'd like doing and jump on it hard, right now. Otherwise you're likely to spend the rest of your life working, and that sucks.
This is the best advice you'll ever receive. I spent a lifetime doing jobs that never stimulated me in the slightest just to pay my bills. Every single day for 25 years I had to force myself out of bed to go to work at my last job working for Social Security. I wish I'd found something I wanted to do when I was your age. I'm sure many others will tell you the same thing. Don't make the mistake I did.
Yeah... seriously. It's not work if you love it. Just paying the bills is like treading water for the rest of your life. Find what you love to do. What makes you happy. And do the fuck out of it. Sounds cliche, but it took me twenty years to realize the truth of it. A good salary in something you can tolerate is just a lure to be miserable for the best parts of your life.
haha well i definitely want a job, im not really going for a career right now, just summer work cause i want to go on a road trip this september so i was going to use the summer to save up money im gonna apply to the jets though, what the hell. i have experience doing sports videography so maybe i have a shot. probably not haha, but last time i looked they were looking for media positions haha ill just need to write a really passionate cover letter to set myself apart.
The need to make money is generally a powerful incentive to not want to do nothing for a while. haha. Be honest about what you really need to work for. And if there's no real need, then you have your answer.
Good luck finding work. It is slim pickings these days as far as work is concerned. I can relate though, whenever I finish up a few semesters I just wanted to veg out, but then I would feel really guilty like I was supposed to be doing something else.
If you want to be a professional at doing nothing for a living the first thing you need to do is stop going on interviews.
Im the opposite, I have 1 year left in college and I WANT a real job. Im sick and tired of working a low paying job and getting treated like crap. Have you worked a shit job? if not maybe thats a reason why you have no desire. Or your parents perhaps pay for everything?and you dont need the $?
Do you have student loan debt? If so wait until those deferments expire. Welcome to the hell that is being an adult. Like the others said, find something you find fun, or at a minimum consistently interesting. Todays' job market is super competitive. Good hard working knowledgeable skilled professionals can't find work or move up the ladder. Prioritize happiness over money. EDIT: Don't actually wait until your deferments expire to find work, just pointing out how much that part sucks.
Don't look for a job. Look for something you really want to do and then go find a sucker to pay you to do it. The happiest people in life spend all day on all fours under a hot sun in the desert using a toothbrush to tease the dirt off of a bone jutting out of a rock in the ground. Put another way, you'll never find an angry, fat paleontologist disgusted with life by 40.
I'm in the college graduation boat, and I'm enjoying this moment of unwinding from 17 years of schooling (collectively, obviously). I figure by mid-summer I'll really crack down and pretty up my resume and start sending it out. I have family friends who may be able to help me land something before hand, and if that opportunity comes, I will for sure jump on it. I would hate for it to come Fall and I'm sitting around with my current job (nothing career worthy) and that's all.
I am mixed on wanting to do nothing and want to go to work. I just got my masters in May in Accounting. I start at PWC in August. My internship ends this Friday. I will have a month off, mostly studying for the CPA exam. But, I am going to enjoy that month off. I am excited to start working but I am also excited to be a bum for a month.
IMO accounting is one of the core careers that will survive any government induced erosion. If I had to do it again accounting would be it. IT security, law, and teaching are others, along with union supported blue collar trades.
I went through this too as I graduated this past December but you need to be careful because I graduated and said "Eh I'll take a week off and then start looking for a job and before I knew it that week became a month and then I started applying. Problem is it takes a lot of jobs a while to get back for you and even if you land the job you typically won't start for a month or so. I finally got a decent paying job but in the meantime I have bills stacking up due to my poor planning/laziness. I would say look for the jobs now because you will have plenty of time to be lazy while you are waiting for them to get back to you. And that is much easier to tolerate than it will be once you decide you want to start working and are waiting anxiously next to the phone.
yep....... I get the urge to not want to "work" right away, you're young and just finished school. If you're not going to get a "real" job then dont just hang around in the local bar scene working BS jobs. GO BIG........at least go do something real cool or crazy that you may never be able to again (travel, exotic/fun job/)........
