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A Struggle of Not Struggling
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Jul 11, 2012 04:30am |
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| Category | Blog Entry |
| Author | Taylor Cotter |
| Media | Website - Huffington Post |
| News Date | Tuesday, July 10, 2012 03:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Editor's Note: This is one post in a series on the quarter-life crisis. Each post is written by a reader and describe very different experiences. See others
Like most female journalists, I assume, I only grew up with two real inspirations in my life: Carrie Bradshaw and Harriet the Spy. I had notebooks that grew into Microsoft Word documents, lists upon lists of everything I knew about everyone I had met. All I saw in my future was a New York City life where I lived adventure after adventure, without forgetting any of the details for blog posts, articles, and novels to come.
When I started college, I figured out that the 10-cents-a-word life wasn't really going to pay apartment rents and student loans that were plaguing my future. I saw job prospects decline drastically over my first year of college and professors discourage students from pursuing careers in journalism. After years and years of being told it was the ultimate way to achieve my dreams, I realized that pursuing a volatile degree from private university was possibly one of the worst decisions I could have made.
I stuck with what I had always been told was the 'right' thing to do, and pursued a degree in journalism at Northeastern University, but made sure to take every conceivable step to make myself employable: internship after internship, student leadership, part-time jobs and graduating early. I spent the last four years crafting my resume so I would be the perfect candidate for a writing job after graduation. I was given an incredible job offer from a previous internship days before graduation and after four years, felt like I had beaten the odds and was on the road -- or at least on a road -- to success. |
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