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I couldn't think of a clever title for this entry. I guess writing isn't about clever headlines, although some of my journalism classes beg to differ.

Anyway, there are a few things on my mind:
1) Should you ultimately stay in a relationship if everyone is against it?
2) Family really sucks sometimes. I just do not care for them right now.
3) My impending graduation
4) Finding a career!!!
5) Jealousy and envy go hand in hand and they both are not a good look.

So, regaining confidence in myself and realizing that God has my back if no one else does seems easy but in fact it's very hard. Those are just five of the thoughts running through my mind. I know that if I prepare myself enough, I will have a lucrative career, graduation is a good thing, family will never change and my relationship is my relationship.

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.