#postgradproblems

[thesavageandthesloth]

Time to grind. @postgradproblems #postgradproblems #pianist #baldwin #baldwinpiano #piano #musician #dapper #dressup #suit #pentaxk110d #pentax #pentaxphoto #pentaxphotography #pentaxian #pentaxians #pentaxcamera #pentaxgram #pentaxfun #pentaxricoh #ricoh #ricohimaging #photographer #photo #photooftheday #teamRicohImaging #teamPentax (at Norfolk Waterside Marriott) https://www.instagram.com/p/BmUWXZDHYrm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=b11yx7w0b0ot

[anoceanofweaknessesandfears]

I will be off for the rest of the summer. And I mean “off from the whole world.” I don’t have time for social life, animals, trips, drunken nights until the 31st of August. It will be a shitty summer, so please feel free to visit from time to time to bring food and solace. Thanks ☠️ Non sarò disponibile per il resto dell’estate. E intendo “dal resto del mondo.” Non ho tempo per la vita sociale, animali, viaggi, serate folli fino al 31 Agosto. Sarà un estate orrenda, perciò venite ogni tanto a portare cibo e conforto. Grazie ☠️ #trinitycollege #mphilthesis #postgrad #postgradproblems #postgradlife #summer #reading #academia #academiatop #laurellkhamilton #anitablake #vampirehunter #umbertoeco #witch #witchcraft #novels #books #somanybooks #solittletime #finalthesis

[angeleyes-zahraa-blog]

#brainoverload #lifeofastudent #postgrad #postgradproblems #overthinking (at Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal)

[perfectingpostgrad-blog]

The Biggest Problem with Post-Grad

I am 23 years old. I have two degrees. What I don’t have is a full-time job. As of the day this is written (around 2 weeks after graduation), I have filled out over 20 job applications and have gotten 10 rejections. Each rejection letter, despite all of them being essentially the same wording, gets even harder to deal with. Will I find a job that pays a salary? Will I live at my parents’ house for the rest of my life working a minimum wage job? Will I be able to pay off my student loans? The questions surrounding my current life and my future keep building up with each day that I don’t have a job and it’s tough to deal with and I often feel like I am drowning in uncertainty. On top of all of that, I feel extremely isolated. Most of my friends either have a job, are pursuing graduate school, or are still working on their undergraduate degrees. I have exactly one friend in the same predicament that I am in and she has been my rock. The point is, I am in a serious post-grad rut to say the least. If I let myself sit at home on one of the days I don’t work and I let myself not do anything, my feelings only get worse.

Through many hours of thinking about my whole situation, I have come up with some solid problems with life after graduation. The first, and arguably hardest problem to deal with, is that school is all we know how to do. I had been in school for 17 years and before that, I was unable to spell my full name, so school truly is all I know how to do. I had jobs throughout college; my first job was when I was 18, but they were just jobs that I did for a summer or a semester or even an academic year, but they all had a sure cut off date. They were temporary. I’ve been fortunate and I’ve gone to schools that have tried to prepare us for the real world: I can balance a checkbook, I know how to do an interview, I know how to look for a job, I know how to dress for a job, and I know how to find places to live. That brings me to the second problem, it all seems so easy. No one can truly prepare you for the real world and all that comes with it...it’s impossible. It seems so easy to just find a job, interview, and get the job and move on with life. Wow is that not the way it works at all. Sitting at graduation, I saw how many people were graduating from my college within my university alone. It was a lot...and we’re all looking for jobs (or rather, most of us anyways). Sure, we all have different aspirations, but we all have the same pool of entry-level jobs to choose from. Hundreds of thousands of newly-graduated college students looking in that very small pool of jobs they might maybe possibly hopefully qualify for. That brings me to my third and final big problem, isolation. Despite there being so many newly-graduated college students in the exact same situation I’m in, I feel incredibly isolated. I have to do my search alone. I have to figure out how to do this stuff for myself. I can ask my parents and friends for advice, but at the end of the day, this is my future and most of the work is on me. Welcome to the adult world. It waits for no one.

Now for the best part: combatting these feelings. 

For the first week after graduation, I slept. I slept all day every day and now not only do I not have a sleep schedule, but now all I want to do is keep sleeping. Don’t get me wrong, I deserved sleep after five very long years of sleepless nights (for both fun and not so fun reasons...I mean it was college). Nap time is, unfortunately, over (jk I still nap, but my point is I can’t sleep all day anymore).

Step 1: Stay productive

Staying productive is the major key here. I’ve spent the past 17 years of my life being a busy bee and I love it because I feel useful and I feel like I’m doing something with my life. Even though my work right now is part-time and pays minimum wage, it is something that I love doing because it’s something to do. When I’m not at work, I’ve started reading again (this time finally with some books I actually want to read) with helpful suggestions from my new goodreads account, I exercise not only for physical, but also mental health reasons, and I started this blog. If you lay in bed all day, your post-grad depression will only get worse. Find (healthy) activities that make you happy and do them even if you don’t really feel like getting out of bed because you won’t regret doing them but you will regret spending a lifetime in bed.

Step 2: Keep up the search

I would be a liar if I said I didn’t get discouraged at some point on a daily basis. Rejection is apparently part of life and oh boy have I been rejected a lot in the past two weeks, but I have to keep going so that I do eventually get a job. I have to shove out all the worries about being rejected again, not being good at a job, and whatever else and just keep going.

Step 3: The power of positive thinking

Pinterest boards. Lots and lots of pinterest boards. I truly love motivational posters and fun sayings. I save my favorites on my phone and I have my own board of motivation and inspiration to refocus my mind on the positive. I know my situation is temporary and sometimes I have to literally search for motivation to keep going so that my situation is actually temporary. I have to remind myself that for my situation to be temporary, I have to keep going. These little things also remind me that my life is not that bad. I have a family and a huge support network of people who love me and want to help me, I have a roof over my head, insurance, a working form of transportation, and a phone as well as cable and internet….all paid for, and I have an income even if it is small.

 tl;dr: Post-grad sucks, I feel bad for myself, but it’s all temporary if you can find the motivation to make it temporary.

Also this song has been super super helpful and I’ve been playing it on repeat.

[thoughtsfor20s]

A Sarcastic Letter to Young "Adults"

A Sarcastic Letter to Young “Adults”

Dear young “adults”, Feel like a whole lot is happening all at once? Is life starting to become bi-polar? Are you starting to get dizzy from all of the changes? Good because that’s when you start really experiencing life. Things happen: old friends disappear and new friends appear, jobs come and go, interests peak and die out. Cue CIRCLE OF LIFE. As cheesy as it sounds, it’s so totally and…

[kramerdaily]

When you get home from work on a Monday and you're still hungover from the weekend. Repost @postgradproblems. Go check them out! #kramerdaily #postgradproblems

[seodigitalmarketing-blog]

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[thesavageandthesloth]

Deal Closers Only. @domt212 @postgradproblems #DealClosersOnly #DealCloser #DealMaker #TimeToGrind #PostGradProblems #SuitAndTie #Tie #WellDressed #Gentleman #Classy #Dapper #Debonair #SuitUp #Suit #DressUp #PentaxK110D #Pentax #PentaxPhoto #PentaxPhotograpy #Pentaxagram #PentaxRicoh #Ricoh #RicohImaging #teamRicohImaging #teamPentax (at Newport News, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz3p8kbC-4a/?igshid=1qtizanj9inw2

[thenextzillionaire]

The Anxious Thoughts That Haunt The New Graduate

Post grad blues? I gotchu.

I want to open by firstly saying congratulations to the many new graduates that are preparing to or that have already walked across the stage. That moment is one that you will never forget that is accompanied by a feeling that is extremely hard to describe. You did it. The late nights of partying studying, sitting through countless lectures, and doing your best on your final exams have all paid…

[mrcochranlit]

A tweet from mrcochranlit

Yep, I'm the guy that reads a book at the pool. #postgradproblems https://t.co/FWFav9h5wb http://pic.twitter.com/nRVaO5coP9

— Mr. Cochran (@mrcochranlit) June 12, 2017

[viralhottopics]

Rihanna sips from a flask at the Grammys because of course

Image: Getty Images for NARAS

Look, we love music as well, but the Grammys is a looooooooong show. One that is much easier to sit through with a good, strong drink.

If you don’t believe us, and need a good, strong celebrity endorsement to that claim, we give you the amazing Rihanna and her lack of caring about drinking from her flask.

SEE ALSO: All the looks from the 2017 Grammys red carpet

During a sweeping camera view of the surely fascinated crowd, Riri can clearly be seen drinking and tucking away her flask. And she really doesn’t care if you saw it.

Rihanna stares straight into the camera as she tries to put away her flask #GRAMMYs http://pic.twitter.com/8z7dx8pZfp

Mashable (@mashable) February 13, 2017

And, just as expected, the internet saw her sneaky sipper. Guess what. She still didn’t care.

“I think it’s time for a shot” http://pic.twitter.com/lCivGDzMnm

Ultimate Rihanna (@URihannaFansite) February 13, 2017

WHAT did Ed Sheeran just say that made Rihanna make this face http://pic.twitter.com/d4qoDWBkiP

#1 Rachel (@rachel) February 13, 2017

A closer version of Rihanna and her FLASK and her SIDE EYE #GRAMMYs http://pic.twitter.com/v8UtBCGzlG

Chanel #12 (@B_UtifulFighter) February 13, 2017

A diamond-studded flask. We will never be on Rihanna’s level. #Grammys http://pic.twitter.com/ktzGKxX3NL

Julian (@jululps) February 13, 2017

Rihanna’s that person who brings a flask to a “beer and wine only” wedding. http://pic.twitter.com/5eQuOlAdcX

PGP (@PostGradProblem) February 13, 2017

“I see you. … Don’t care.” http://pic.twitter.com/u7kY8fqpaH

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) February 13, 2017

Mood. #GRAMMYs http://pic.twitter.com/W7epRFqLmL

Ultimate Rihanna (@URihannaFansite) February 13, 2017

She’s not even tucking it away, holding it for all to see.

Rihanna listening to Beyonc’s speech #GRAMMYs http://pic.twitter.com/AQGshSQAdS

Music News & Facts (@Musicnews_feed) February 13, 2017

We sure hope that Rihanna isn’t the only one to think ahead at the hours awaiting awards show attendees. Either those smiling faces surrounding her either had several rounds before the show started or have flasks of their own.

They just don’t have Rihanna’s bravery to bust it out whenever they need help sitting through the Grammys.

BONUS: One ‘Pitch Perfect’ actress writes songs for Rihanna and Beyonc

Read more: http://on.mash.to/2lKmt3z

from Rihanna sips from a flask at the Grammys because of course

[collegeproblems]

[myquarterlifemeltdown]

When I Realized How Fucked I Am For The GRE:

& Then I'm Like:

[thesavageandthesloth]

Deal Closers Only. @miguelsbaeza @postgradproblems #DealCloser #DealClosersOnly #PostGradProblems #Adulting #Dapper #Debonair #Retro #SepiaTone #1960sFashion #1960sStyle #Fashion #Suit #SuitAndTie #SuitUp #DressUp #Elegant #Classy #EveningAttire #Gala #PentaxK110D #Pentax #PentaxPhoto #PentaxPhotography #PentaxCamera #PentaxRicoh #RicohPentax #Ricoh #RicohImaging #teamRicohImaging #teamPentax (at Hampton Roads Convention Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/BztRWI5gMAI/?igshid=njeieurqc2hm

[whenincambridge]

When you look more closely at your 'best' subject

[howtobeamillennial]

When still in college: I can't wait to graduate and find a job.

One month out of college: I'm not ready for real life yet.