A Look Back at My Career Start
I graduated from college broke, unemployed, and dumped. It was a low point but also a turning point filled with life lessons and cheap booze.
Graduating during a recession was not a great start, but it felt like I was the only one without a job and frankly direction. It was an uneasy feeling that kept me up at night. I was waitressing, babysitting, and freelancing — I lived paycheck to paycheck to pay rent which left me looking for a full-time job between the hours of midnight and dawn. Pile on student debt meant I was desperate for a salary job.
The breakup happened post-graduation. I initiated the breakup, regretted it, and tried to salvage it only to be more officially broken up with.
Life was looking bleak. This post is reading as depressing, but there is a silver lining. The mantra in my head repeated, “Where do I go from here?” simply I kept trying, showing up, and learning new best practices for navigating my career, achieving financial stability, and entering the dating scene. Eventually, I did land a job, and the experience I gained propelled me to my dream job. I was able to eliminate my student debt by age 30. After kissing a lot of frogs, I met the man of my dreams. In the really low moments, I dug my heels in and refused to give up.
