Hello World!!

Finishing university is a bizarre time in your life isn't it? I liken time at university to toddlers who have just learnt to walk but have reigns on to stop them wandering too far. A strange analogy but stay with me, when you are at university you play the role of an adult but you aren't quite there yet. You pretend to be an adult but your parents are always there in the background to pick you up when you inevitably fall over, whether it be financially, academically or emotionally.

When you finish and move back home because a student loan doesn't really stretch that far it is a weird transitional time. If like me you have chosen a career that is extremely difficult to get your foot in the door, then moving back home is your only choice. Interning is far from cheap but it is one of the only ways to enter the journalism industry (post on that to come).

I have to admit that part of me did think that I would just walk into my perfect career as soon as I left university, naive I know. Although some of my friends have which is fantastic, for the rest of us we have to work that little bit harder and readjust the life plan a little.

So the phone still isn't ringing off the hook with the editors of my favourite magazines begging me to join their team but it has allowed me to realise a few things. To all the recent university graduates; we are still young, why settle? Take this chance whilst you are still responsibility free to try everything, travel around the world and see everything you have ever wanted to because when you get that dream 9-5 (which you will) you may not have the opportunity to. There will still be jobs when you decide to fully enter the world of work and that time in Peru or Australia could actually help land that job in the long run.

Well that time you got smashed at a full moon party in Thailand will probably not scream management material to potential employers so maybe keep that on a need to know basis, but the experiences we go through make us who we are.

What I am trying to say in my usual long winded way is that perhaps not getting that dream job straight away isn't a bad thing. Don't lose too many sleepless nights over it because worrying won't make it better, now you have the time to do all the things you ever wanted to or gave up on in the past.

Every cloud has a silver lining and if you are lying on the beach in Cuba then that lining starts to look a whole lot shinier.

First stop for me: climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. Oh and joining an acting class! Actually the list is endless but that is a start.