Post-College Pain Assessment
Allie Osmar has a great post up on her blog listing the good and bad bits associated with her first year out of college and in the corporate world. She uses the same pain assessment graphic hospitals use when trying to get a straight answer out of little kids regarding the level of pain they’re experiencing (smiley face = no pain, crying face = lots of pain). Osmar does an excellent job of laying out an honest list of the painful and wonderful parts of that first post-college year.
It’s funny(ish) because it has to be—no one straight out of college is quite yet numb to the state of nature that is Being An Adult (nasty, brutish and not nearly as short or as sweet as your college days were). The real world has the potential to really, really suck. But it is what it is and we can make of it what we will. I think everyone has the capacity to do well and be happy (all at the same time is a nifty trick). Realizing that everyone else is having ten wretchedly real-life moments to every amazing one will really help you get through the day. We’re all in the same boat and it’ll all be okay, I promise. Do what you can do and for god’s sake don’t take everything so seriously.
Posted by Alexa Harrington
Thanks… looked at the post, liked it… Been a while since I left college, life after school is not too bad, but college was certainly more fun…