Have you ever heard that saying “After a storm, theres a calm”? Well if you haven’t, it seems to be true. I know what you are saying to yourself right now, “you are being so cliche it’s not even funny.” But I promise you I am not! I have been through a whole lot within just one year and if anyone were to have told me this is where I would be right now, I would have laughed at you rolled my eyes and walked away. Not in a rude way of course, just in a sassy “you’re funny” kind of way. But things always seem to change for the better, even though everything always has to get ten times worse in life before they can even become close to being what you thought your life might be like.

When looking at my life and where I thought I would be right now, I am nowhere even close to it. I am no longer with the person I thought I was going to be with, I am living at home, I have been unemployed for five months, and I am not doing a thing with my degree. And let me just tell you, being a college graduate who has had some success in the adult world (which isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be) and going from being employed to no longer employed and having absolutely no clue what it is that you want to do with your life can be a bit depressing. On top of that you have your parents constantly asking “why don’t you have a job?” or “what you are doing about changing the fact that you don’t have a job?” and my absolute favorite “When are you getting a job? Because we need the guest room back.” It is like no matter how many jobs you apply for you never seem to land an interview or you never hear back in the first place. It is stressful, mostly because your parents are constantly asking you questions and pressuring you into figuring out your entire life plan. It becomes so stressful that you slowly just start realizing that you might as well just be a bum and live at home with mom and dad for the rest of your life and watch so much Netflix that it turns into a replacement for your career path.

Yes, I did do that last part for the last five months of my life along with drink a little too much and enjoy the wonderful summer days on the amazing Great Pond in Belgrade Lakes. There is really nothing better then my home, the sun, and the lake but that’s a whole other blog that I will have to write about. I can say that being on the lake and having as much fun as I did in those five months have actually brought me to the place that I am today. Which I am thankful for and very excited about because I started a new job. That’s right, you are reading a blog of a working girl now!

This is huge for me, this was the step in the right direction. To put me back on a path, not only to success in my future with a career, but to becoming a happier me. I now have a purpose everyday when I wake up, I have something to look forward to doing (not that anyone looks forward to work, but we will go with it for a moment.) I have something that I can take pride in, people that I can help and have fun while doing it. The ability to network, meeting new and interesting people along the way. All of the opportunities that starting a new job or career path allows for more happiness to enter my life. Which is very exciting in the eyes of a five month unemployed young adult, and lets just say the term adult is also used very loosely here.

It’s all part of life, growing up, and getting a job I suppose.

Although being an adult isn’t always that fun, my new job is pretty cool. I am sure that at some point I will have much more to write about with my new job, but for now I am just very excited to start this new adventure.