We recently had the chance to speak at a breakfast honoring high school students who were preparing to graduate. It was fun meeting the students and hearing all of them talk about exactly what they wanted to study and the job they would have in four years. I agreed with the eagerness, but told them not to get discouraged if their choice of study changed multiple times like it did for so many of us!
One of the main focuses of our speech was about a topic that is relevant to young professionals in the workplace today. If we are able to remove the element of the “unknown” about college or life after college, how much easier would that make things? It may be simpler than you think.
Start to view classmates as co-workers, teachers as bosses and classrooms as offices. The challenges you face today are not any harder than challenges you faced in college; they are just different. You move from one phase into the next with more knowledge and experience than before. Use your experience from college as comfort by realizing that you have handled each situation up to this point well enough to be in your current position.
What other similarities have you noticed between college and career that have benefited you?
Here is a small excerpt from Life Before Noon, which is available on Amazon:
Section 3, Lesson 2
Once you are into your career it will be easier to identify things with past experiences. If you can develop the discipline now, it will put you one step ahead of your competition after college. Employers are going to want someone who is ready to work and be able to step in with the smallest learning curve. You, of course, will have to learn about the job itself, but the preparedness you undergo in college will allow you to apply this knowledge in any job in any field. Realize this now, and it will pay off later.
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This is the second post in a series of guest posts on Life Before Noon from the team at College State of Mind.
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