I will try to be positive about life tomorrow, I am sure there's advantages to not knowing what you are doing with your life. Just generally feel a little scared and uncertain. It's a lot leaving the education system. Funnily enough before I came back to uni for my final year I could not wait to get out, but now I am just like...it's a comfortable little routine. Library. Gym. Friends. Fun. Oh well. Going to stop waffling and go back to work. I am sure these negative thoughts will pass.
This was soo me last year! I didn’t apply to any VS or TC things as I had a grad job but I knew I wanted to go into law. In My head I saw myself as more valuable if I were to to work and then apply as I can apply myself more and I’d have more competency answers. I feel like applying as a graduate is better for me anyway as I know my degree grade it’s not something I have to stress about or prove I can get. All I have to do is bring my personality. I also felt like when applying as a grad to things I took a different approach as to what I would’ve done if I applied as a uni student.
if I applied whilst at uni I wouldn’t have got to VI let alone an offer I was soo fake in loads on my grad job applications and I wasn’t myself at all. Only in my grad job interview did I show myself but realistically that’s too late.
When I applied to vs and TC as a grad I incorporated more of my personality then what the firm wanted or what I think they wanted. I think graduating I matured more and saw the real world as it is.
Uni is such a little bunable I got comfy in lol I was happy going to work 2 days a well clubbing 2 days and eating mc Donald’s at 2am at a friend house just because lmao I loved life and I think I was a little sheltered to rejection. Now that I’m working as a grad I work with people who have kids, partners or parents they have to take care of and how much their career means to them and how hard they work for what they have.
I was able to apply this mindset to my applications and be happy to make it to a test. I was able to see how bad ppl wanted to progress in the company to have a stable life. So when making my applications I applied that real life experience into it.
Realistically I have no structure after uni 🤣🤣 I feel like a corporate slave sat sleep work repeat it’s not fun. Go get a part time job save and travel for a few months. You’re young!!! I wish I did that haha
No one has it all planned after uni unless they have things in place we’re all clueless it’s kinda fun not knowing what to do as you’ll never get that feeling again once you get a job/settle into your career.
Im making the most of the flexible working my job has! I finish at 1pm on a Friday and 3/3:30 or most weekdays I’d never get that in law! Be happy you have freedom and you’re not stuck to doing something.
My point is don’t let not having a vs or tc as a uni student stop you!! Getting one as a grad is super fun you’ll more a lot after graduation. I miss being at uni though 😭😭😭
