AUDIO STORY INTERVIEW

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     The transition from college life to the workforce life always been a hard shift for most students. We spend almost 16 years of our lives in school studying to create the best life for ourselves, waiting for the day we walk across that final graduation stage, only for it to hit us like a brick wall. The idea that we will graduate college and start a career we love and have the most successful life, is very much romanticized and not at all the reality. 

    No one tells you that the shift from student to employee is a really hard one. No one tells you that you will miss the days as a student and at college where your days were so carefree. No one talks about the struggles you will go through having to figure out full time in the workforce and much of a difference it is to the class room. No one talks about the identity crisis you will have being forced to jump into a world that is nothing like the one you have lived for the past 4 years... now with that being said, lets just imagine dealing with the struggles of the pandemic and the impact that has had for the workforce on top of the struggle of graduating college. 

    The global pandemic has made it significantly more challenging for graduating seniors that are in the process of job searching.  I am a college senior and will be graduating in May of 2021 and have had my fair share of anxiety filled thoughts about packing up my apartment and heading back home- jobless...

     So today I sat down with one of my classmates to talk about the pressures and struggles seniors are facing in the mist of the pandemic and trying to find a job they love. Click the link to listen to the full audio story interview with Marlee Arrington!

https://jsu-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/mmcdevitt_stu_jsu_edu/EXEKY-_NWBBHuN6X3FSgMhQBzyxs1j9pbVjZsXqz_4w_UQ?e=EnfGXF 



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