Saturday, May 14, 2011

Past, Present, Future?

As a university graduate with a Bachelor of Commerce and a major in Marketing Management, I feel as if the past four years of my life were spent in a futile effort to please professors and T.A.'s and often times single-handedly save group projects from failing grades due to terrible group members. I do not feel like I gained much real world knowledge about the world of business and at the end of four years, I still feel that the program was not the exact "right" choice for me. I'm passionate about writing and reading and my forever growing home library is testament to that. I still feel a greater attachment to the arts then I do science or business. And yet, in all my four years of university life, I never felt a need to change academic fields. I wanted to learn more about marketing before I abandoned it forever. The problem was, that in my final winter semester of fourth year, I still felt as if I did not know enough about marketing to refute it as a worthy field to work in. I'm sure that readers will now be thinking that I am insulting my university and its program, but let me assure you, I am not degrading the program or its teachings. I learned some very practical knowledge in many of my courses, often times with professors trying to instill their own passions in apathetic students. What I am really trying to say is that even with the knowledge I gained and professors' support, I still feel that business is not something that can be learnt in a classroom like other disciplines, but is something that requires actual working experience to understand. And this is something I do not have, nor do I know how to get it! There is a universal catch-22 that plagues the entire working world - "you need experience to get a job, but without a job you can get no experience"! This is the present dilemma I find myself in, along with the knowledge that I am completely un-knowledgeable on how to actually find a job! So here I am, a recent graduate of a program I'm not sure I was completely interested in, no job experience, still wondering if a career in business is where I'm headed! Only the future will tell...along with some heavy resume blitzkriegs on my part!

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