The Unpredictability of Life After Graduation: A Post-Grad Video

As I sit here reflecting on my post-grad life, I have to admit that it's been a wild ride. One moment, I'm excited and invigorated by the possibilities ahead; the next, I'm overwhelmed and uncertain about what's next. The truth is, I never thought much about life after college until I graduated. I was too busy focusing on my studies, my career goals, and my personal relationships.

Having a job throughout college was not always possible for me, but when it was, I tried to save as much money as I could. It's been invaluable advice that has helped me navigate the ups and downs of life after graduation. Without those savings, I wouldn't be in the position I am today, which is freelance work that can be both fulfilling and challenging.

I have to admit that being a freelancer can be soul-crushingly overwhelming at times. The uncertainty of it all, the pressure to constantly produce content, and the fear of not making ends meet can take its toll. But there are also moments when it feels incredibly exciting – when I get to choose my own projects, work with amazing clients, and explore new interests.

The thing is, life after college is full of possibilities that can be both exhilarating and intimidating. If you have a stable career track in mind, like becoming a doctor or lawyer, owning a house may seem like the next logical step. But for me, the idea of owning a house seems daunting. It's a big commitment, and I'm not sure if it's right for me.

For those still in college, I want to offer some words of wisdom. Spend money on yourself, but also save as much as you can. Invest in your education, explore your interests, and build relationships that will last a lifetime. Your future self will thank you when you're faced with the uncertainty of life after graduation.

When asked about where I see myself in five years, I have to admit that I don't know. The truth is, there are just so many possibilities ahead. In college, I felt like I had some personal autonomy, but also a sense of structure and routine. After graduating, I feel like I have unlimited freedom – the ability to choose my own path, live wherever I want, and pursue my passions without constraint.

Of course, that's not entirely true. There are still responsibilities and commitments that come with adulthood. But there is something liberating about being able to make choices that align with your values and interests. It's like having a sense of agency and control over your life.

For example, I've always thought that if my boyfriend were to start working, he'd be "congratulated" on the first day of the rest of his life – as if it's a rite of passage or something. But honestly, that just made me feel trapped and uncertain about what lay ahead. Meanwhile, he has the freedom to save and invest for the future, take time off when needed, and pursue new opportunities.

It's funny how perspective can shift like this. One day, I'm feeling suffocated by the idea of adulthood; the next, I'm excited about the possibilities that lie ahead. Maybe life is just a video game, where you get to choose your own path and make decisions that align with your values and goals.

In conclusion – there isn't much of a conclusion, per se. But for those who are interested in learning more about navigating life after graduation, I'd be happy to share my experiences and insights. Whether it's lifestyle content, practical advice on managing finances or career choices, or just existential musings on the nature of adulthood – let me know what you're looking for, and I'll do my best to deliver.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: envery simple i graduated college like a year ago but you know just in case you didn't know if you saw my little austin diary video then i already kind of spilled my guts a little bit on like my post-grad thoughts and just kind of like where i'm at in my life and so i'm going to be doing the same thing today but in a much more structured format i'm going to be talking about a few different topics like the biggest changes to expect after graduating making friends finances just some general existential thoughts that i've had since graduating and all that fun stuff so if you only care about like certain topics i'm going to put all the time codes below so you can skip around to different topics if you want to okay let's jump in giant psy for what we're about to get into so the first thing i'm going to talk about is just the general big question big elephant in the room what is it like switching from a full-time student to full-time working i could honestly just talk about this like single topic the entire day i like to think about it imagine your life is a tv show and when you're growing up like every school year is like a season on your show in most tv shows there's like two plots there's plots within an episode and there's like an overarching season plot so it's like the same for your life like say you're a freshman in college you know episode one might be like starting classes going to your first party you know there's like a few plots happening in that first episode but your whole season arc is like completing your first year of college and then next season it's a new topic so there's constantly different stuff happening excitement highs lows everything that a good tv show needs and that your life needs and then when you graduate it's like your show gets canceled okay that was a little dramatic but basically what i meant was in college you have all these built-in activities and goals and milestones like parties club meetings a test you have to pass a whole class you have to pass it's like you're living on a tv show that's fun and stressful and exciting with this pre-written plot because there's just so much happening but then when you graduate there are none of those like set things for you there are still some big life goals and things to hit like getting married buying a house retiring but there are like a lot longer stretches and so it is really weird going from having all these goals that you're achieving daily weekly monthly and yearly to just kind of floating around in like the workforce world and having like some long-term like 10-year goals you have to personally work really hard to make sure that you keep your life fresh and fun and you set up things for yourself and it's kind of cool that you have control over that like you're not assigned a test or signed a paper to do you can make those milestones for yourself but if you don't work hard to make those milestones for yourself then it really just feels like life passes you by and time flies so fast if you don't have memorable things or goals that you're doing week to week now let's talk about the pandemic and post-grad i know this is like very specific to me so i'm just going to talk about this briefly but it was definitely weird graduating into a pandemic there's like the obvious things like the economy was just rough and the job market was rough and i was really thankful that i did find a job like a month after graduating i know my boyfriend didn't start working until like six months after graduating and then there's the whole new world of working at home which is a whole different topic and yeah it was just a weird time it's still a weird time we're still we're still in it but i think the weirdest weirdest part and like the hardest part for me was socially during college you have all these very specific built-in friend times like even if you never hang out with anybody and you have no friends you're going to interact with people in classes even just walking on campus and being surrounded by tons of people who are in kind of like the same life situation as you there's something like very cool about just having that like sense of community on campus even if you have no friends just in general after college people go all over the country all over the world all over the state and even people who are still living within your city it just takes so much more commitment and like work to make sure you see them am i lonely because there's no parties happening because of covid or am i lonely because my friends moved away you know i guess both but yeah just both on the reel though i wish i had all these great tips for making friends post grad but i just really haven't made any because all my ideas for how to make friends post-grad we just can't really do so i'll share my ideas with you anyway even though i haven't done them because of kovis one tip i would say just in general that helps with your post grad life but also making friends is to join some kind of college club equivalence i used to dance and i've really been wanting to take dance classes weekly and then hopefully i would also make friends in my dance classes and it doesn't have to be dance like your community could have like a local soccer team you just go to the same coffee shop every single morning and you get to know the people there also if you weren't working at home because of the pandemic you would have co-workers that hopefully you would befriend also don't forget about social media it can be kind of weird just like cold messaging people online and you definitely want to make sure you're safe but i feel like in today's age it's like getting less and less weird and more and more common if you like see someone on social media who lives in your area maybe you have like one mutual friend or something like that and you're both into like soccer you know maybe just give them a follow if they follow you back you could send them a little message like hey wanna meet up and to me that feels so intimidating and uncomfortable but also they're just like a social profile they're not a real person you know so if they just reject you it's like whatever financially planning to buy a house or renting and i feel like this was an ass but also includes things like retirement savings i'm going to talk really quickly about all financial things of postgrad which also could be its own video but we're just going to do a little summary in this video so first i'm going to talk about renting versus owning a house which kind of becomes like your first big thought post-grad after you get a job the first thing is like what's my job going to be and then after that it's like the next thing is kind of like owning a house which is just so weird to think about i have no idea what i'm going to be doing a year from now like six months ago i had a completely different job and i had no idea i would now be freelance which is sometimes like kind of soul-crushingly overwhelming and then other times it feels very exciting because the possibilities are so endless after graduation and if you have like a very stable track like you want to be like a doctor or a lawyer you're already married then owning a house feels like it makes a lot more sense i just can't imagine owning a house for like years i know this is a post grad video but i would just like to point out some smart financial things you can do if you're still in college that will help so much after you graduate so i didn't have a job throughout college until my senior year and i tried to save as much money of it as i could and that helped so much after i graduated i feel like in college i just never really thought about life after college besides like what cool job i wanted to have but i didn't think about you know what if i'm laid off for a month or if i can't find a job for six months you know what am i gonna do so having a little nest egg of savings when i graduated was so helpful i don't think i ever would have been able to quit my nine to five and make the leap to being freelance which can be unstable for sure if i didn't already have savings from when i worked in college so if you are still in college psa to spend money on yourself but also save as much as you can for after you graduate your future self is going to really appreciate it the last question i'm going to answer is where do you see yourself in five years and the truth is i don't know and i mentioned this a little bit earlier but there's just infinite possibilities after you graduate and there's something very overwhelming and also very cool and exciting about that i always felt like i had personal autonomy in college and growing up but i don't think i did well my southern accent just came out there i feel like like i mentioned in college it is pretty structured you can like choose your own classes but they have to be working towards your major in graduation you can live wherever you want but you probably have roommates so that dictated some so it's like you have all this new freedom but also not really but then after you graduate you just you have unlimited freedom i mean you still have to like have a job and support yourself but i can live in any country any state any town even within a city i could live wherever i want i can choose how much of my income i want to spend on rent i could just quit my job and be an uber driver tomorrow i could work at a flower shop tomorrow i mean i have to get the job but still like you you can just make all those decisions like i know that's so obvious like yeah of course you can do whatever you want but like you can like if my life just goes to i can just move to bali and work at a coffee shop like that could be my plan b in life whenever my boyfriend started working they like congratulated him and said congrats on the first day of the rest of your life and that just felt like so depressing to me because in a way it's kind of true and kind of not true it's true in the sense of like it's not just his first day of work at this job it's like his first day of working full-time forever like for the rest of his life like he could move companies but he's just entering the workforce for the next 40 years i don't know it just made me feel so trapped and it wasn't even my job i was like oh my gosh you have to do this forever but then the other part of me was like well that's not entirely true he could save like 50 of his salary and just take like a year off next year and then like repeat over and over for the rest of his life that's kind of weird and maybe not the most realistic i don't know i don't know maybe it is because life is a video game and you can do whatever you want in conclusion there is no conclusion but yeah that's everything that's been swirling around my brain from a practical standpoint and an existential standpoint so let me know if you'd like more practical content or existential content because i've got both up in my noggin but for real i made a lot of college content in college obviously and i feel like it's only fitting now that i make a lot of post grad content because that's what's happening in my life so let me know in general if you're interested in post grad content just lifestyle content of my life or just content for navigating your 20s because that's where i'm at right now or if you want none of that then feel free to let me know that too okay i'll see you guys next week byevery simple i graduated college like a year ago but you know just in case you didn't know if you saw my little austin diary video then i already kind of spilled my guts a little bit on like my post-grad thoughts and just kind of like where i'm at in my life and so i'm going to be doing the same thing today but in a much more structured format i'm going to be talking about a few different topics like the biggest changes to expect after graduating making friends finances just some general existential thoughts that i've had since graduating and all that fun stuff so if you only care about like certain topics i'm going to put all the time codes below so you can skip around to different topics if you want to okay let's jump in giant psy for what we're about to get into so the first thing i'm going to talk about is just the general big question big elephant in the room what is it like switching from a full-time student to full-time working i could honestly just talk about this like single topic the entire day i like to think about it imagine your life is a tv show and when you're growing up like every school year is like a season on your show in most tv shows there's like two plots there's plots within an episode and there's like an overarching season plot so it's like the same for your life like say you're a freshman in college you know episode one might be like starting classes going to your first party you know there's like a few plots happening in that first episode but your whole season arc is like completing your first year of college and then next season it's a new topic so there's constantly different stuff happening excitement highs lows everything that a good tv show needs and that your life needs and then when you graduate it's like your show gets canceled okay that was a little dramatic but basically what i meant was in college you have all these built-in activities and goals and milestones like parties club meetings a test you have to pass a whole class you have to pass it's like you're living on a tv show that's fun and stressful and exciting with this pre-written plot because there's just so much happening but then when you graduate there are none of those like set things for you there are still some big life goals and things to hit like getting married buying a house retiring but there are like a lot longer stretches and so it is really weird going from having all these goals that you're achieving daily weekly monthly and yearly to just kind of floating around in like the workforce world and having like some long-term like 10-year goals you have to personally work really hard to make sure that you keep your life fresh and fun and you set up things for yourself and it's kind of cool that you have control over that like you're not assigned a test or signed a paper to do you can make those milestones for yourself but if you don't work hard to make those milestones for yourself then it really just feels like life passes you by and time flies so fast if you don't have memorable things or goals that you're doing week to week now let's talk about the pandemic and post-grad i know this is like very specific to me so i'm just going to talk about this briefly but it was definitely weird graduating into a pandemic there's like the obvious things like the economy was just rough and the job market was rough and i was really thankful that i did find a job like a month after graduating i know my boyfriend didn't start working until like six months after graduating and then there's the whole new world of working at home which is a whole different topic and yeah it was just a weird time it's still a weird time we're still we're still in it but i think the weirdest weirdest part and like the hardest part for me was socially during college you have all these very specific built-in friend times like even if you never hang out with anybody and you have no friends you're going to interact with people in classes even just walking on campus and being surrounded by tons of people who are in kind of like the same life situation as you there's something like very cool about just having that like sense of community on campus even if you have no friends just in general after college people go all over the country all over the world all over the state and even people who are still living within your city it just takes so much more commitment and like work to make sure you see them am i lonely because there's no parties happening because of covid or am i lonely because my friends moved away you know i guess both but yeah just both on the reel though i wish i had all these great tips for making friends post grad but i just really haven't made any because all my ideas for how to make friends post-grad we just can't really do so i'll share my ideas with you anyway even though i haven't done them because of kovis one tip i would say just in general that helps with your post grad life but also making friends is to join some kind of college club equivalence i used to dance and i've really been wanting to take dance classes weekly and then hopefully i would also make friends in my dance classes and it doesn't have to be dance like your community could have like a local soccer team you just go to the same coffee shop every single morning and you get to know the people there also if you weren't working at home because of the pandemic you would have co-workers that hopefully you would befriend also don't forget about social media it can be kind of weird just like cold messaging people online and you definitely want to make sure you're safe but i feel like in today's age it's like getting less and less weird and more and more common if you like see someone on social media who lives in your area maybe you have like one mutual friend or something like that and you're both into like soccer you know maybe just give them a follow if they follow you back you could send them a little message like hey wanna meet up and to me that feels so intimidating and uncomfortable but also they're just like a social profile they're not a real person you know so if they just reject you it's like whatever financially planning to buy a house or renting and i feel like this was an ass but also includes things like retirement savings i'm going to talk really quickly about all financial things of postgrad which also could be its own video but we're just going to do a little summary in this video so first i'm going to talk about renting versus owning a house which kind of becomes like your first big thought post-grad after you get a job the first thing is like what's my job going to be and then after that it's like the next thing is kind of like owning a house which is just so weird to think about i have no idea what i'm going to be doing a year from now like six months ago i had a completely different job and i had no idea i would now be freelance which is sometimes like kind of soul-crushingly overwhelming and then other times it feels very exciting because the possibilities are so endless after graduation and if you have like a very stable track like you want to be like a doctor or a lawyer you're already married then owning a house feels like it makes a lot more sense i just can't imagine owning a house for like years i know this is a post grad video but i would just like to point out some smart financial things you can do if you're still in college that will help so much after you graduate so i didn't have a job throughout college until my senior year and i tried to save as much money of it as i could and that helped so much after i graduated i feel like in college i just never really thought about life after college besides like what cool job i wanted to have but i didn't think about you know what if i'm laid off for a month or if i can't find a job for six months you know what am i gonna do so having a little nest egg of savings when i graduated was so helpful i don't think i ever would have been able to quit my nine to five and make the leap to being freelance which can be unstable for sure if i didn't already have savings from when i worked in college so if you are still in college psa to spend money on yourself but also save as much as you can for after you graduate your future self is going to really appreciate it the last question i'm going to answer is where do you see yourself in five years and the truth is i don't know and i mentioned this a little bit earlier but there's just infinite possibilities after you graduate and there's something very overwhelming and also very cool and exciting about that i always felt like i had personal autonomy in college and growing up but i don't think i did well my southern accent just came out there i feel like like i mentioned in college it is pretty structured you can like choose your own classes but they have to be working towards your major in graduation you can live wherever you want but you probably have roommates so that dictated some so it's like you have all this new freedom but also not really but then after you graduate you just you have unlimited freedom i mean you still have to like have a job and support yourself but i can live in any country any state any town even within a city i could live wherever i want i can choose how much of my income i want to spend on rent i could just quit my job and be an uber driver tomorrow i could work at a flower shop tomorrow i mean i have to get the job but still like you you can just make all those decisions like i know that's so obvious like yeah of course you can do whatever you want but like you can like if my life just goes to i can just move to bali and work at a coffee shop like that could be my plan b in life whenever my boyfriend started working they like congratulated him and said congrats on the first day of the rest of your life and that just felt like so depressing to me because in a way it's kind of true and kind of not true it's true in the sense of like it's not just his first day of work at this job it's like his first day of working full-time forever like for the rest of his life like he could move companies but he's just entering the workforce for the next 40 years i don't know it just made me feel so trapped and it wasn't even my job i was like oh my gosh you have to do this forever but then the other part of me was like well that's not entirely true he could save like 50 of his salary and just take like a year off next year and then like repeat over and over for the rest of his life that's kind of weird and maybe not the most realistic i don't know i don't know maybe it is because life is a video game and you can do whatever you want in conclusion there is no conclusion but yeah that's everything that's been swirling around my brain from a practical standpoint and an existential standpoint so let me know if you'd like more practical content or existential content because i've got both up in my noggin but for real i made a lot of college content in college obviously and i feel like it's only fitting now that i make a lot of post grad content because that's what's happening in my life so let me know in general if you're interested in post grad content just lifestyle content of my life or just content for navigating your 20s because that's where i'm at right now or if you want none of that then feel free to let me know that too okay i'll see you guys next week bye\n"