RE: College Graduate
I'm gonna break it down for you in a way that noone else has yet to do thus far...I'm gonna hit ya with a bit of real-world reality. Before I do that however, I would like to congratulate on earning your degree. GOOD JOB!
In about 10 years from now you will realize that your best days are clearly behind you! College will be most remembered as the best days of your life. Probably a little too hard to imagine that now being one day after you gradutated, but you'll begin to see the light soon. All those long days and nights of studying and going to classes and writing 20 page case studies on British Air, Fisher Price and Nabisco and all the other crap that we as marketing majors had to endure at the hand's of our Professors, will seem like a friggin cake-walk compared to what lies ahead! Let me break that down for you: Crappy, starting base salary; zero recognition and/or appreciation for all of your hard work; working weekends and still not being able to get caught up; an overly demanding Boss who probabaly knows less then you; corporate politics; hot co-workers sexually harrassing you via email because they know a man with a Challenger is just about as good as it gets (that part sounds fun, but I bet the Wife/girlfriend would disagree!); forgetting to put a cover sheet on your TPS Report and being told eight times by eight different people that you need to ALWAYS make sure the cover sheet goes on the TPS Reports; commuting an hour+ in traffic from your crummy apartment; dry cleaning bills for all those snazzy suits you're gonna need to keep well maintained in order to meet some arbitrary level of professional aesthetics; 60 hour work weeks...I could go on and on. That's basically the first ten years of your professional career in a nutshell. While you're probably ready to jump off a bridge by now...DON'T!!! It gets better....you'll probably get married and bang out a few kids because society's norms dictate that's what we're supposed to do. You might even go thru a divorce or two (depending on the quality of your decision making capabilities)...alimony, palimony, custody issues, court battles, legal fees, etc. Sounds like fun doesn't it? Now you can jump!
And no matter what anybody tells you; no matter how much of this you may choose to dismiss...the real world sucks! Driving a Dodge Challenger will help to make it slightly better. Good luck and go get em out there Slugger!
-Albeeno