Blog #6 Changing priorities

I'm entering my final semester of university and looking at graduation. It feels weird like it's the end of a plan that I've been following for years since the last few years of high school. When you spend so long focusing on one particular phase of your life it's difficult to imagine life afterwards. For a long time when I did think of life after university, I often imagined a fast-paced corporate career.

Today when I imagine life after university, I don't see a fast-paced corporate life at all. I see myself constantly travelling. Working in bars, not offices. Meeting interesting people and writing about it. It's great that I know what I want and that I'm making steps towards that goal. A part of me is a little upset that it took 3 years, 10s of thousands of dollars of debt, and disillusion with my degree...

But I guess that depends on where you place your metric for success. If we were to adopt the very valid mindset of going to university with the intent to carve out a successful career then yes I'm not that successful. But I've chosen to adopt the mindset that going to university is about learning, growing, and figuring out who you are as a person. With that metric, I'm a success. I've managed to do those things.

Unfortunately, I can't mindset shift the debt away. Delulu may be the solulu for many circumstances but not here. One silver lining though is that thanks to the hex scheme at least whilst I'm travelling, earning a modest wage, and not in Australia I won't have to pay my debt.

Maybe travelling will eventually convince me to come home and carve a career out for myself. Maybe it will convince me to go back to university and study something else entirely. 

It's really strange how we put so much pressure on teenagers to know what they want to do and make large financial commitments to that. At least in my experience, you are likely to change your perspective and change your goals.

Now I understand that I'm quite privileged. I'm not pressured by my family to pursue any particular career or achieve a certain level of success. This is why I'm choosing to be grateful, ultimately education is never a bad thing. 

I'm so excited about the freedom that will be granted to me once I graduate. Not obligated to complete anything and held to nothing, completely free. I'm grateful that I can go out into the world after university with a greater sense of who I am and the ability to pursue what makes me happy.

For the first time in my life, I don't have a clear idea of where I'm going or what is going to happen and I'm so excited. 

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