Finishing college. Time for more classes. How about a class in reality?

Finishing college. It's time for more classes. How about a class in reality?

It's been some 4 or 5 years of hard work. You studied hard, you partied hard, it's time to start getting paid for all the things you've learned and all the things you've endured. Now it's just work, no more homework. And all that money that went pay for all that knowledge is the money well spent.

Of course it is! All you need to do is find that place, that job, that company that will appreciate your knowledge and skills, be able to compensate you for it and generally feel lucky to have you join their establishment.

Of course it's not an easy job to find all that in one place but does anything worth having ever come easy? Sometimes. Not on a regular basis.

So off to work to look for work one needs to go. And if you have waited for all those 4 or 5 years to start looking, you have waited some 4 or 5 years too many. It may take longer than you thought it should. It may actually take much longer than that.
So to have it happen sooner what is the best thing to do? Do it while you wait. Do it like you do your homework. Always.
And if you always do your homework your chances to have better grades are better.
What other obvious things are for your consideration?

Ann Hartter offers a few of them.

1. Many jobs do not require nearly as much intelligent thought as school does:
Finding a job that challenges you intellectually will be something you have to fight to find, as it will not be handed to you. This often will mean expanding your own job description or looking for something new.

2. Getting called on in class and being graded is nothing like being told what to do for eight hours every day: In school, you are largely free to make your own decisions about how to use your time. While you are generally expected to show up for class and complete assignments by their deadlines, the only person who is ultimately affected by whether you do these things or not is you, so no one (except maybe your parents) will breathe down your neck to get them done.
In the work world, your boss, whose boss is breathing down his neck, or your clients whose money is at stake, will put pressure on you to complete your work when they want it done (usually yesterday), not when you feel like doing it.

3.When you’re used to moving around all day, sitting at a desk for eight hours can be absolutely mind-numbing and even physically painful: In college, you at least have to get up to walk from one class to the other every hour or so. You may even have breaks between classes and fun activities built into your day, like sports or music lessons.
Sitting in the same desk and focusing on the same subject day after day for hours on end with only lunch, bathroom, and coffee breaks is probably a lot more monotonous than what you’re used to, even if your job has some variety built in.

4.Work doesn’t change as often as school does: In high school, you change classes once a year (sometimes once a semester), and in college, you change classes once a semester (at some schools, once a quarter). At work, you’ll often do the same work year after year, surrounded by the same people. While you’re likely to get very efficient at these repetitive tasks and very comfortable with these people, you may not get the stimulation you’re used to. Keeping life interesting by taking the occasional class, learning a new skill, meeting new people, or reading a good book becomes your own responsibility.

5.They usually don’t teach you basic job skills in college: Learn how to send a fax and make a long distance phone call from a land line before you get to your first job. Skills like these are incredibly basic to the work force. You’ll be expected to know how to do them; no one will teach you. You’ll waste a lot of time and look foolish if you don’t come to work already knowing how.

6.Being good at studying doesn’t mean you will be good at working: The skills that you need to excel in school are not always the same skills you need to excel in the workforce. The ability to think critically and adhere to deadlines will certainly continue to serve you well, but many of the skills that you learn outside the classroom will be much more important than the knowledge that you gained inside it.

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