It's tough out there, they say

Same time last year, I was nearly done with first wave of my thesis and the semester is about to end. Meaning, it's summer time! Woot woot! Well, not for me. Some of my blockmates who survived Com Res1 and hasn't failed any subject wanted to get ahead and start internship. Since I'm succumbed with peer pressure, I joined the "mag-oojt ako ngayong summer para di ako pagod sa 2nd sem" club. So around last week of March last year, my thesismates and I went on our way to search for the perfect OJT site. It took us one morning to come up with target companies and one whole job-hunting day. Before "feeling fresh grad vibes" job-hunting day ends, I got an interview. It was that fast. I submitted my resume to TeamAsia at around 10am and I got a text that I'm in for the interview at around 3pm. The day after, I sat down for a very casual interview, and after 20 minutes of awkward smiling, I got in. It was that easy. 

Now, I know it'll be totally different from what happened last year. I know that it won't be that easy. I had a small talk with an alumnus (or is he? I'm not sure if we even graduated) during Com Nite, and he warned me that it's not going to be easy once I'm in the "real world". I've been hearing a lot about how hard life would be like in the professional world, and it does scare me. I don't want to have a boss like Miranda Priestly, give up the love of my life and be miserable like Andrea Sachs in the 'The Devil Wears Prada'. I also don't want to end up waiting tables as I wait for the opening of jobs for writers in San Francisco Chronicle like Erin in 'Going The Distance'. I don't want that. But I have to face the fact that I'll be competing with God knows how many thousands of fresh graduates and unemployed earthlings in finding jobs. In a room full of gazillion applicants, I'm just an average joe. And I tell you, it scares me.

I have a list of my target job positions in my dream companies, and maybe I wouldn't get in any of those (hoohoo hope not). But as my fear of dipping my toes in the sea of uncertainties conquers me, I would just take my Dad's advice to not belittle those job positions that I think isn't worth my awesomeness. He told me that those who started from the bottom are those who are now in the highest of highs. (sigh) Is it too early for me to worry about this right now? Yea? No? Well, I'm not done with college yet. Woops, that reminds me, I still have two papers to finish.