Job searching while you’re still in your senior year of college (or last year of grad school) can be pretty stressful. That’s mainly because you’re still focused on actually finishing college, so searching for a career to start making money in directly after graduating is quite tough to balance.
It’s honestly a pretty unfair setup if you think about it. You should be focused on graduating, right? Not getting a job! Or wait, is it the other way around? Getting a job is the priority, so your last year of college should be a breeze, right?
No matter how you think of it, there’s no changing the formula to how it works.
But once you do land the job you’ve been searching for (or something less than stellar that will do for now . . .), you’re set to start making money and making a life for yourself. It can be an exciting time, but it can equally be stressful and even scary to begin everything anew all at once. Perhaps you never had a full time job before this. Perhaps you did, but it’s been years.
Whatever the case is, you’ve got to start adulting, as they say nowadays.
But let me tell you: adulting isn’t nearly as hard as people make it out to be. You’ve just gotta know where to begin.
Get a cheap apartment at first.
Alright, so this is dependent on your expected income for the new job, but there’s no reason you need to be searching out a house right now. I will say that some college grads will opt to stay with their parents longer if the job is relatively close, but I’m not an advocate of this method simply because you don’t truly know what it means to be an adult until you’re on your own and paying your own bills. So pick a place you like alright and sign a lease. It’s the best thing you can do for your own growth.
Get disability insurance.
It’d be a shame if you got hurt or incredibly ill early on in your career. You don’t want to have a loss of income right away, especially since you’ve likely got student debt to pay off and more. Disability insurance is cheap but extremely handy.
Begin budgeting.
If you like to eat out more often and have the income for that, make it larger on your budget. If you want to travel some throughout the life and that’s your way of “buying nice things” for yourself, put it on your budget. No matter the case, draft a budget for yourself and stick to it. You want to start tracking where your money goes so that it’s more easily managed. You’ll save more this way, too.
Whether or not you live close to home or other friends from college, you want to have a social life and surround yourself with people who make you happy. It’s not fun entering the adult world without support, so go out and meet others at bars, restaurants, dog parks, gyms, or wherever you can.
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