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Dr. Hardwick, the Dean of Students at Carroll and a friend of my mother, writes a weekly blog for the college. Today, he wrote about me:
One Carroll employee shared with me the good news--and the stress that goes along with the good news--that her daughter who is graduating from college received this week.
The daughter called to tell her mother that she had received two job interviews. Both invitations, however, required the daughter to fly across the country for the interviews.
The news of the excitement of the job interviews turned to tears as the daughter explained all of the things she had to do between now and graduation. The idea of dropping everything to interview for jobs pushed the daughter's stress level over the top. "She's tipped," the mother related to me.
The mother said that it took awhile in the conversation until she finally got to the real reason for her daughter's tears. The daughter confessed that all of her end-of-year school work and quick trips for job interviews for her future were taking time away from the friends she would miss after graduation. The time she thought she would have to be with her friends and classmates before graduation was disappearing.
What kind of advice is a mother to give when you can't stop the time from disappearing? Write the papers, study for the tests, fly to the interviews, take the tests, accept the job offer and know that you have a lifetime to keep in touch with your friends. JDH
One Carroll employee shared with me the good news--and the stress that goes along with the good news--that her daughter who is graduating from college received this week.
The daughter called to tell her mother that she had received two job interviews. Both invitations, however, required the daughter to fly across the country for the interviews.
The news of the excitement of the job interviews turned to tears as the daughter explained all of the things she had to do between now and graduation. The idea of dropping everything to interview for jobs pushed the daughter's stress level over the top. "She's tipped," the mother related to me.
The mother said that it took awhile in the conversation until she finally got to the real reason for her daughter's tears. The daughter confessed that all of her end-of-year school work and quick trips for job interviews for her future were taking time away from the friends she would miss after graduation. The time she thought she would have to be with her friends and classmates before graduation was disappearing.
What kind of advice is a mother to give when you can't stop the time from disappearing? Write the papers, study for the tests, fly to the interviews, take the tests, accept the job offer and know that you have a lifetime to keep in touch with your friends. JDH