Graduation: Masters Edition
So... I'm graduating on Saturday. With my Masters in English Literature. It's been... what, five years since I started it? Long break in the middle. But now it's done. Everything's been approved and sent through. Only a bureaucratic fuck up could stand in the way now.
I'm not going to go into a PhD quite yet... I want to work a job for at least a little while first, preferably teaching at a community college, but I haven't secured a position yet, so... job hunting time. Loans have about run out and I'll be asking for more hours at my part time shit job. Sigh.
I feel kinda bummed. I sort of liked being in school and the loans kept me afloat pretty much permanently, and now that I don't have them to live off nothing's secure. If I got a real job with real pay I'd be a lot happier, but those things are hard to actually secure. Not giving up by a long shot, just depressed I don't have one already and that I don't really know what I'm going to be doing with myself in the new future.
It's also scary since I've defined my life by this degree for so long, and now it's done. It feels almost like life being over, rather than the end of training for life. Christ, I need something to do that I can feel good about. Been looking at community colleges mostly, but really I'd take any professional job. Non-profit organizations would be cool (I especially like working in the Trans sector, but I also know they tend to be... pretty nasty and catty within their own organizations. I don't think I'd be trans enough by their standards) or even corporate jobs. There's so many options, and all of them only vaguely available, that I don't know what to do.
Well, enough of the emo. I'm a Masters! I have a paper that says I'm smart, whether you like it or not! Sadly, being a Masters doesn't let me force you to call me Dr. or anything....
I'm not going to go into a PhD quite yet... I want to work a job for at least a little while first, preferably teaching at a community college, but I haven't secured a position yet, so... job hunting time. Loans have about run out and I'll be asking for more hours at my part time shit job. Sigh.
I feel kinda bummed. I sort of liked being in school and the loans kept me afloat pretty much permanently, and now that I don't have them to live off nothing's secure. If I got a real job with real pay I'd be a lot happier, but those things are hard to actually secure. Not giving up by a long shot, just depressed I don't have one already and that I don't really know what I'm going to be doing with myself in the new future.
It's also scary since I've defined my life by this degree for so long, and now it's done. It feels almost like life being over, rather than the end of training for life. Christ, I need something to do that I can feel good about. Been looking at community colleges mostly, but really I'd take any professional job. Non-profit organizations would be cool (I especially like working in the Trans sector, but I also know they tend to be... pretty nasty and catty within their own organizations. I don't think I'd be trans enough by their standards) or even corporate jobs. There's so many options, and all of them only vaguely available, that I don't know what to do.
Well, enough of the emo. I'm a Masters! I have a paper that says I'm smart, whether you like it or not! Sadly, being a Masters doesn't let me force you to call me Dr. or anything....