What kind of Final year Student are you? :)

I don't really fit into any of the boxes. I'd like to be an Academic I think, but I want to work for a few years first, to gain experience and money. However, I don't have a job lined up as I've applied for a research grant to do research with one of my lecturers for six weeks over the summer. As they obviously recieve more applications than they can give money to, I won't know until April whether I've got the money. As the research would take place around August-September time, I can't really commit to a job until I know what's happening with that. However, I've got a holiday lined up for June and some work experience planned for July.

So I feel like there needs to be an option for "got-lots-of-plans-that-may-or-may-not-work-out"!

I am totally head-in-the-sand about my final exams though.

Sounds like you're on the right track to me! In these uncertain times, having lots of plans seems like a good idea.

It's a route a lot of my friends seem to have followed (I went to uni late so a lot of my school friends graduated last year and the year before). I know quite a few people who have several "projects" on the go in the hope one of them will come off. Also, every time in my life I've made really rigid plans, they haven't worked out.

I think my problem is that I don't know what job I'd like to do because I like the look of all sorts of jobs that my degree could lead to, which is both good and bad!

I was a 'Hope-for-the-Bester' turned 'Traveller':

http://www.theguardian.com/education/mortarboard/2014/mar/17/graduation-job-worry-illustration-blog


I remember being absolutely terrified of uni ending, it was like staring in to a massive chasm of anxiety. So I'd like to reassure any worried final-years that it's alright on the other side.^[1]

What kind of final-year student are you?

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