Scary But Exciting
So, I finally got off my ass and started looking for real jobs instead of the crappy place holder work I do every summer. And within a few minutes, I found my dream job.
It's a grass roots nonprofit organization whose purpose is to get more lefty politicians elected and eventually work its way up to putting a Democrat in the White House in '08. Considering the fact that my first exposure to elections was licking envelopes for my mother during the Dukakis campaign when I was FOUR, this is absolutely perfect for me. Right now, it would be a summer gig, but since I'm hitting such a brick wall with my grad school admissions, I could choose to defer admission and take a year off and reapply. Being able to put something like this on my resume is the kind of real life experience that admission people drool over!
If I get the job, I'll have to get my own place, figure out some kind of budget, etc... No school or parents to act as a safety net. I'm completely terrified, but this could end up being the best thing to ever happen to me! I'm self aware enough to know that part of the reason I've been so obsessive about getting into grad school is because it was a way to avoid the real world, but now that I'm actually jumping right in, it feels pretty good! The next three weeks until graduation are going to be completely insane., but for the first time in a while I feel hopeful and not utterly terrified.
And to those who read my Inreto verse, I'm SO sorry for the lack of updates. The drama of senior year and an absolutely wicked case of writers block have left me a wreck. I'm working, but it's slow going. I hate that I'm leaving it all hanging right now, but I want it to be the best, right?
It's a grass roots nonprofit organization whose purpose is to get more lefty politicians elected and eventually work its way up to putting a Democrat in the White House in '08. Considering the fact that my first exposure to elections was licking envelopes for my mother during the Dukakis campaign when I was FOUR, this is absolutely perfect for me. Right now, it would be a summer gig, but since I'm hitting such a brick wall with my grad school admissions, I could choose to defer admission and take a year off and reapply. Being able to put something like this on my resume is the kind of real life experience that admission people drool over!
If I get the job, I'll have to get my own place, figure out some kind of budget, etc... No school or parents to act as a safety net. I'm completely terrified, but this could end up being the best thing to ever happen to me! I'm self aware enough to know that part of the reason I've been so obsessive about getting into grad school is because it was a way to avoid the real world, but now that I'm actually jumping right in, it feels pretty good! The next three weeks until graduation are going to be completely insane., but for the first time in a while I feel hopeful and not utterly terrified.
And to those who read my Inreto verse, I'm SO sorry for the lack of updates. The drama of senior year and an absolutely wicked case of writers block have left me a wreck. I'm working, but it's slow going. I hate that I'm leaving it all hanging right now, but I want it to be the best, right?