I'm Not Going to Sleep Tonight, Am I?

[jenny_wildcat]

I've mentioned it an innumerable number of times and I will probably mention it another innumerable number of times before May 5: I have no idea what I'm doing after graduation and would people Please. Stop. ASKING!!!!!

Whoo, that's out of my system.

I just got off the phone with my mom and she's all "A little over a month until graduation... any ideas what you're going to do?"  My response: "Play Xbox with my brother?"

Obviously, that is not a viable option and I would probably get sick of it after awhile.  I know full well that I am going to get bored in Callao all summer, but also moving to Salt Lake scares the living tar out of me.  Lots of scary people, lots of scary traffic, lots of rules that I am sure to break and I won't even have the excuse that I'm just a stupid college student who has no idea what the hell is going on.

Here's what must happen if I'm to make the move to the Big City:
1. Find a job
2. Find housing that I can afford with said job (and that lets me sleep above the floor)
3. Find said housing with at least one roommate (living alone=many a sleepless night)
4. Make friends and influence people (or just make friends)
I think most of my problem is that I don't really know anybody in the Salt Lake area.  Where am I going to go if I have a problem?  What if I all of a sudden have a financial situation and I can't get myself out of it?  What if I get stuck somewhere and don't have anyone to call?  What if I get really sick or hurt?  I'm not a little kid anymore and I don't have my mom and dad to run to if I get in trouble.  I'm supposed to be an adult now, but I don't think I'm really ready for this.

And then there's the prospect of getting a job.  All I've heard my whole life is "When you get your college degree, you can go out and do whatever you want."  Well, I very nearly have my college degree and I have no clue what I want to do, so there's really nothing that I can do.  I don't know what's out there and available to me.  I know that I can handle having a full time job because I did it last summer and I loved the job I had and I curse the fact that I had one more year of school left because I would have just kept it.  That, and I want to be closer to my family because I missed too many things going on at home because I was stuck in Logan.  If I can find a job in Salt Lake like the one I had last summer in Logan, I could handle that.

Geez, all this stress is killing me.  I have to do something to unwind or I won't be sleeping tonight.

Love from,
Jenny Wildcat


PS, If anyone in the Salt Lake area knows of a place that is looking for a smart, efficient, grammatically-skilled, quick-to-learn, Bachelors-in-English recipient, please float them my way. (Not to mention if you know of affordable housing or someone with housing looking for a roommate)

Comments

[shellic.livejournal.com]

"I think most of my problem is that I don't really know anybody in the Salt Lake area. Where am I going to go if I have a problem? What if I all of a sudden have a financial situation and I can't get myself out of it? What if I get stuck somewhere and don't have anyone to call? What if I get really sick or hurt? I'm not a little kid anymore and I don't have my mom and dad to run to if I get in trouble. I'm supposed to be an adult now, but I don't think I'm really ready for this."

If you end up in Salt Lake, don't forget that I'm an hour and a half away and my family lives in Sandy. My parents and my sister can be your emergency contacts.

And if all else fails for a job, you can work for my Dad in real estate. It could be like a fall back job if you don't have one already. My dad has hired temporary and long term people plenty of times before. Believe me, he's a really nice guy ^_^. He also explained to me how you could become a loan officer . . . but I forgot how it works. He can get people lincenses fairly quick somehow . . . Anyway, that is always an option for a job before you find something that you can use your degree for.

If you seriously want to live in Salt Lake, our families can discuss it a little at graduation or even parants day if mine are comming to that.

And hopefully now you will have dreams of dancing deplomas and twirling tassels . . . and Harry Potter ^_^.

[faewren.livejournal.com]

Hey you could always come and live with us - we want to move into a 3 bedroom apartment for the bigger living room, just not able to afford it all the way. So. . . just an idea. I promise we're not the scary married lovey-dovey flim-flam folks that people make us out to be.

. . . and you could correct my bad grammar.

p.s. you could always go into editing. I know an editor, I could ask her if she knows of any jobs.

[jenny-wildcat.livejournal.com]

What kind of editing does she do? That's definitely something I'm interested in, so if you don't mind asking her, I would appreciate that.