Meant to Be

I am what people would consider the typical college graduate.

I live at my parents’ house. (Thanks Mom & Dad!) I am unemployed in my field. And I am in a major amount of debt because I went to a private college rather than a state school.

But the thing is, I know I’m not alone.

Many talented people I graduated with at CCAD are on the hunt. Taking odd jobs to scrape by. Sending out resumes late into the night. Having a perpetual knot in their stomach as the six-month gap for paying back debt is quickly coming to an end.

For me, the story is the same. I took an internship over the summer that sadly didn’t have a job at the end of the tunnel like I had planned. I’ve been perfecting my portfolio & staying connected in my design community. I’ve been freelancing & designing late into the night to make sure I had enough cash to survive. I’ve gone to job interviews that picked someone else or went in a different direction.

I’m not going to lie… It really sucks.

But even though the situation sucks, doesn’t mean you should be sucky. It’s easy to get depressed during these times. You start thinking that everything you’ve done and created has been in vain. That you aren’t any good at the trade you’ve learned. Or even worse, that you are just an unlikeable person.

You can easily let this negative attitude take over your life, and help you get nowhere.

But I’m not going to let this negative & sucky fog take over my life.

I’m going to keep checking the job boards. I’m going to take the random face-painting job for a couple extra bucks. I’m going to keep being involved in fantastic communities around town. I’m going to keep searching for that perfect design job that I’ve worked my ass off for. I’m going to keep being creative. I’m going to have fun.

Because I know a fantastic opportunity is going to find it’s way to me, & I would rather be found with a smile on my face than a looming toxic attitude.

All these missteps and hard times, they happen to everyone; we aren’t special little snowflakes in that aspect. It’s up to you how you take sucky news and bunker down through the shit storm.

It really sucks, but there is only up from here. And when it’s meant to be, it will happen.