Scared of Graduation

I am approaching my last semester of college. I went through a lot of changes, learned a lot, and met a lot of people. I guess that's the point of college, huh? I am deathly afraid of graduation and moving into the professional world.

Newspapers and magazines are laying people off, am I going to have a job? So I decided to look for a job in public relations. This seems like it will be a good, however, I came across an article from The Wall Street Journal titled: The Declining Value of Your College Degree

I am very upset about this. I can't believe that I have spent 4+ years in college and when I graduate, there will barely be any jobs available. Bonus: If I ever get laid off, it will be extremely hard for me to find another job.

This is my plan:

I don't want to be a struggling journalist, I want to have health insurance, be able to pay my rent and afford food, be respected and afford to live. I don't want to live off my passion for writing, I want to make money doing something that I enjoy doing. Writing as a career is not stable and in the age of blogs, anyone can write. I want to be pursued for my talent I don't want to experience so much rejection that I just have to give up.

That's why I have decided to pursue public relations. It still has the elements of journalism with stability. With the state of newspapers and magazines, I don't want to go into a field that could be dead before I'm 30.

So I am going to be a public relations, whatever, and freelance wherever I can. I'm sure diehard journalists are going to be up in arms about my decision, but hey, I gotta eat and I want to have a family someday.

Journalism and public relations aren't entirely different but until journalism can make a comeback, I'm jumping on the public relations bandwagon.