A Whole New World ! (what a headache...)

As the end of the first semester of my final year approaches, I find myself thinking about what I’m going to do when my career as a Polytechnic student ends.

Honestly, it fills me with dread thinking about it. Unlike many of my peers, I don’t have, and have never had, a clear map of my future. Perhaps the only time I’d ever planned for the future was during my secondary school days, when all I could think of was getting out of a typical junior college route and onto a polytechnic one, by taking a diploma in Mass Communication. Given its wide career options, the diploma seemed like a great idea to a girl as undecided as I was. At the same time, I thought that the 3 years in the course would buy me enough time and exposure to decide on my plan of action for the future.

Close to 3 years down the road, I’m as undecided as before. I’m almost at the next major crossroad of my life and still without the foggiest idea of what I should do.

Should I go straight to work or should I continue on to a university? I was contemplating working for a couple of years before getting a degree or 2 but that would make me older than my classmates, which would make me feel like an old maid ? :) On the other hand, as a friend of mine said, working before pursuing a degree will help me decide whether a degree in that line of work would be worth pursuing at all.

Besides having to consider where to go after Ngee Ann, there’s also this nagging voice in my head that keeps telling me there are so MANY types of jobs out there in the world, so many options that I’ve never even heard of! Considering I haven’t really found my passion yet, thinking of what job I’d like to try out for is an added headache.

I have to count my blessings though. At the moment (I can’t believe I’m going to say this) I am SO glad I have to take this module from the School of Interdisciplinary Studies in my polytechnic. Part of their teaching plan is to prepare us for a career, which they call ‘Job Prep’. It’s a very short course which actually only lasts for 2 weeks but it does give us a little exposure on the ‘how-tos’ and ‘what-nots’ of cover letters, résumés and interviews.

Good grief, all of that information coupled with mind-boggling decisions to make gives me a headache. I really think I should give my mind a rest and worry about it again towards the end of next semester. In the meantime, I’ll be concerning myself with more urgent things like surviving deadlines!!! Maybe my real problem is not indecision but procrastination…but that’s something we can talk about another day. :-x

Nicole::
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