Post Grad Life

I remember the excitement of completing my graduate studies. Graduation took place and life threw me curve ball after curve ball. I'm in a better place today, but the scars are still present.

When I visited a former professor, we talked about life for those of us who successfully completed graduate studies after grad school and was looking for work. As I sat before her, a woman of great intellect, I soon learned that she was as confused as I was while she was trying to advise me on how to find steady employment. She looked at me and asked me "If we were worth it?" Bold question.

The "we" was the graduate school experience. The reading of copious books and criticisms. The long hours learning teaching philosophies. The dreaded comprehensive literature exam. I did not have to think twice. All that experienced was worth it and I would do it again.

I think those of us who are living in the new brave world of post grad life should be good to each other and ourselves. The jobs are few, the security is basically non-existing, and life promises death, hard times, and taxes. This is the post grad life and I am all in