As I start my final year at Penn State, I’m starting to eye up the future options. Graduate school has definitely been on the table. I’ve considered going to law school, not one in particular but a law school all the same, or a graduate program for English, probably focusing on creative writing.
I’ve enjoyed my time here at Penn State, but can’t help but feel a sense of impending doom on my horizon. What kind of job can I get coming out of Penn State with degrees in English and Film/Video but no internships? Ideally, I just want to create stories. The medium isn’t all that important. Short stories, films, comics/graphic novels, television. Anything will do. I’m just not sure of the steps I need to take after graduation or even what direction to look. Graduate school feels like an easy decision, but not necessarily the right one.
I suppose I painted myself into this corner by choosing these specific majors, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to go to college for 4+ years doing something I don’t enjoy. I’ve seen my father work a job he hated for 20 years of my life, something he had to do and one of the many reasons I have a great deal of respect for him, so I’m not about to do the same thing.
September 03, 2009, 9:18pm
