Future Thoughts
Among leaflets about depression, letters about fire safety and other general crappy bits of paper Lancaster University crammed into my hands during Freshers Week over two years ago, I remember receiving a giant A3 poster.
The poster outlined a three year plan, and thinking back it told me (it was a talking poster) that around about this time in our third year of Uni we should be applying for graduate jobs, so we can walk into a nice shiny career after graduation and boost the University’s all important stats.
Have I started applying for graduate jobs? No. Do I know anyone else who has started applying for graduate jobs? No. Maybe the poster deserved its place in my bin with all the other freshers spam rather than on my wall.
I am thinking about my future though. What I originally thought was a pretty straight path is now turning into a pretty wonky path with lots of different tempting avenues I could wonder down.
Before I started University, I quite fancied doing a masters degree. Then, I actually did start Uni and quickly learned that I’m a lazy git who likes to get drunk. Now however, I am feeling kind of sad that my time at University is coming to an end, and if I do well enough in my summer exams then I may just apply to study a masters. After all, there is not a massive abundance of great graduate jobs around in the current economic climate is there?
When I was younger I harboured the ambition of joining the Royal Air Force, although my Dad kind of pushed me in that direction. I joined the Air Training Corps when I was 13, which was a decent laugh with my mates, but I felt that military life was again something I could not be arsed with. Over the last few weeks though, the RAF has kind of rebooted itself inside my mind and it may very well be something I look into and consider in more detail.
Traveling is also another option. I would quite like to see a bit of the world and maybe even a bit of sun (a rare site in England) before I am an old fart. Something like Camp America might be an idea, and living in Spain for a few years during the future is something I have had on my mind for a while now… ahhh!
Knowing me though I will probably end up with a career in Lidl.
Now I suppose I should crack on with some Uni work…
7 Responses to “Future Thoughts”
It’s definitley not about graduate jobs, I’ve got 18 months until (if) I graduate and already have a plan, Camp America at the end of June for a few months and then hit the road travelling down through South and Central America, work for 3 months and then travel 3 months sort of thing, picking up a bit of Espanola along the way. Within 4 years of graduating I want to be on the Falkland Islands, just go on a sort of adventure without the routine of 9-5 jobs and living for the weekend.
Basically GO TRAVEL!!!
Save the 9-5 for when you have 3 kids and a mortgage x
Camp America was a thought, but I would not be 21 until August next year, meaning I would be over in America for a while not being of the legal age to have a good peeve. Where is the fun in that?
I’m still not sure what I want to do with regards to travelling like. I suppose my mind will work it out eventually.
How’s it going anyway mate?
Everyone gets a fake ID out there so you’ll be fine
Yeah it’s going well, not so much in terms of my course, got an exam that unless I do about 20 hours revision I will full on fail and an assignment about marketing, which is pretty much psychology (which I don’t even study!!!). Just planning my summer travels atm, deciding which countries to go to and trying to round up the Leicester Uni brigade to go with me, otherwise I’ll just go solo again. There’ll be a few from our school out there at the same time, Longy is having a holiday there, Jade is teaching English there and I pressume more will show up like last year, apparently Vikki Lee was in Chiang Mai when I was there, small world.
Decent that like. How are you going to afford all of the traveling? Will you just work when you are over there?
Overdraft
Decent!
I knew Jade was off to Thailand to teach like. She was working in Vertex in the summer like me until she got the sack for being late.
You could hold a Maghull High reunion over there!
You should get your arse over there, last year I think there were 7 ex-Maghull out there, honestly though if you have any spare cash then get straight over there.
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