I never considered blogging before; not until I participated in a week full of graduate and "how-to-make-yourself-employable" workshops.
University of Leeds has loads to offer on life after graduation, which is something I never considered when applying to the University - in fact I never considered life after university! This isn't unusual; many of my friends who I have spoken to about the matter of employment said they never considered at 17 what employment would be like and the help offered by their chosen university. I guess we all just thought we would just fall into employment and that is how the job market worked. I don't think I even considered what life would be like after 21.
At 13 you look forward to being 15 because then you can see certificate 15 films, at 15 you look forward to 16 because then you can have sex legally, at 16 you look forward to 17 so you can drive, at 17 you look forward to 18 because you finish school and can drink legally. Then at 19 you look forward to being 21 because you have finished university and you are classed as an adult. But at 21, what is the next age to look forward to?
Now that I have completed university and living dangerously near the poverty line in some shitty flat above a takeaway that smokes us out each night in sunny student ville "Hyde Park", I am VERY ready to move forward. However I need to find that age that I can look forward to and have a good reason for it too. 22? 24? 25? 28? 30? Is there anything determined like school and university that is fixed at a certain age?
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