M'egga Wolf
New Contributor
Hello tribe,
I stumbled across this forum while going through a rabbit hole trying to decide what to do next. I have been lurking for a while & seen some motivating threads. I read a few threads each morning to jump start my day.
As of now, I am in the slowlane. I am currently applying to jobs while working as a high school math teacher. The reason my title is "recent chemical engineer grad" & not "math teacher" is because I took this gig on short notice. Im not too proud of it ( feels like a step back tbh).I didnt land a job before I graduate and the wait game was eating away my savings.
anyways, I totally killed my academic career. I graduated at top 6% of my class, was one of two students awarded representing the entire engineering department, created a design team and won the EPA p3 award ( which will now be passed on to seniors every year). blah blah etc. all that added up to a happy grandma and no career (yet). Of course, my academic peers are salivating for me to join a PhD program. But I don't want to play that game no more.
I want to start becoming financial dependent, I have family to carry. I find myself getting out of the no jobs depressed state. I just need a clear cut goal and create a process to get there. Of course, the goal of me finding the job in my field = slowlane, yet I'm here posting on the fastlane...
So here I am, praying on receiving a job to validate my education and provide for my family V.S. jump into the fast-lane and become more than that.
I feel like the kid on the diving board scared to do a backflip
I stumbled across this forum while going through a rabbit hole trying to decide what to do next. I have been lurking for a while & seen some motivating threads. I read a few threads each morning to jump start my day.
As of now, I am in the slowlane. I am currently applying to jobs while working as a high school math teacher. The reason my title is "recent chemical engineer grad" & not "math teacher" is because I took this gig on short notice. Im not too proud of it ( feels like a step back tbh).I didnt land a job before I graduate and the wait game was eating away my savings.
anyways, I totally killed my academic career. I graduated at top 6% of my class, was one of two students awarded representing the entire engineering department, created a design team and won the EPA p3 award ( which will now be passed on to seniors every year). blah blah etc. all that added up to a happy grandma and no career (yet). Of course, my academic peers are salivating for me to join a PhD program. But I don't want to play that game no more.
I want to start becoming financial dependent, I have family to carry. I find myself getting out of the no jobs depressed state. I just need a clear cut goal and create a process to get there. Of course, the goal of me finding the job in my field = slowlane, yet I'm here posting on the fastlane...
So here I am, praying on receiving a job to validate my education and provide for my family V.S. jump into the fast-lane and become more than that.
I feel like the kid on the diving board scared to do a backflip
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