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What can you expect after you graduated? Advice!!

I will graduate in 6 months and I've had an insight into what life will be like after uni, as I did a placement year. I didn't like aspects of the job where it was 24/7 sitting down on the computer from 9-6pm. I did get to do things related to my course but it was not my main role, my main duties were administration related. I also feel like I've drifted from all friends or they just seem busy, is this normal?? I just feel like if something happened to me they would never know as they don't contact me without me having to first. I barely have an opportunity to speak to boys now, in addition to never having had a relationship, I think my chances are going to be much more slim once I've graduated.

So yeah my fear after uni is as follows;

- not finding a job I enjoy or can do things related to my course.
- not having any friends to hang out with
- not being able to meet enough boys to form a relationship
Reply 1
Wow that sums it up then :/
Reply 2
Working for the next 45 years.
How can it be 24/7 sitting down...9-6pm?
Reply 4
Original post by Huw M Thomas
How can it be 24/7 sitting down...9-6pm?


lol my bad I mean just sitting at the computer from 9-6 without doing anything else
Isn't post-graduate life more about what you do when not working? Get a decent enough paying job and your free time would be what you'd look forward to :tongue:
There will be those at work who look forward to lunch breaks (because they value socializing) and there will be those who pretend lunch break doesn't exist as they like to remain busy. Plus they would eat at their desk anyway.

What course are you doing BTW?
Reply 7
You can just do whatever and work in a place you don't enjoy and do the 9-5 and slowly become miserable, like a lot of people ... or you can try and identify a career that you'll actually enjoy and go for it.
Reply 8
Original post by CTLevers
Isn't post-graduate life more about what you do when not working? Get a decent enough paying job and your free time would be what you'd look forward to :tongue:


But why would you want to work somewhere you don't like?
Reply 9
Original post by shawn_o1
There will be those at work who look forward to lunch breaks (because they value socializing) and there will be those who pretend lunch break doesn't exist as they like to remain busy. Plus they would eat at their desk anyway.

What course are you doing BTW?


I do Product design
Original post by Anonymous
But why would you want to work somewhere you don't like?


Sometimes you've got to make compromises. Most people don't get their dream job straight out of uni, it's something which may or may not eventually happen. Most people don't wake up every morning wanting to go to their job, it's what the job gives them e.g. financial stability, money to do hobbies, which gets to up in the morning and pushing through.
Original post by Anonymous
I do Product design


I'm not sure how the job market is looking for product designers. If this is something you're keen on, make sure you're familiar with the applications they use. You might not have done much relevant work during your placement year but do remember that if you speak positively about it during an interview, employers would think you're keen too
Original post by CTLevers
Sometimes you've got to make compromises. Most people don't get their dream job straight out of uni, it's something which may or may not eventually happen. Most people don't wake up every morning wanting to go to their job, it's what the job gives them e.g. financial stability, money to do hobbies, which gets to up in the morning and pushing through.


I'm sorry but all those things wouldn't motivate me to get up to go to the job if I spend most of my time each week going there, I have to like it a bit, it can't be what spent years in education for
Original post by shawn_o1
I'm not sure how the job market is looking for product designers. If this is something you're keen on, make sure you're familiar with the applications they use. You might not have done much relevant work during your placement year but do remember that if you speak positively about it during an interview, employers would think you're keen too


Yeah I will thanks !
Make sure you make arrangements for outside of work hours. So if you work 9-6 you have evenings and weekends I presume... you have to get in contact with your friends and socialise. Such is life. It won’t just come your way if it hasn’t already. You need to make the effort.
Go watch St Elmo's Fire :smile:
Original post by EdPsychElla
Make sure you make arrangements for outside of work hours. So if you work 9-6 you have evenings and weekends I presume... you have to get in contact with your friends and socialise. Such is life. It won’t just come your way if it hasn’t already. You need to make the effort.


Honestly when I worked those hours I felt too tired to even be able to do anything else after work as it took me 2hrs get to work and back, it's not a life I want to live.
Original post by Anonymous
Honestly when I worked those hours I felt too tired to even be able to do anything else after work as it took me 2hrs get to work and back, it's not a life I want to live.

So you're not working full time anymore?
Original post by EdPsychElla
So you're not working full time anymore?


No that was placement year, I was working two jobs, 7days a week so yeah it was basically 24/7 I preferred my weekend job because I got to move around more and engage with people but that was retail and my weekday job was an internship
Original post by Anonymous
No that was placement year, I was working two jobs, 7days a week so yeah it was basically 24/7 I preferred my weekend job because I got to move around more and engage with people but that was retail and my weekday job was an internship

Maybe start part time work first (not just weekend work) so you can fit in other stuff. Rather than 7 days a week...

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