post college depression?

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does everyone go through post college depression? kind of like, fun over, work begins... it's gettin to me really bad

LegacyUser

How long have you been working?

I've recently been through the same, was in a desperate state for the first 3 weeks or so. Thinking about what I should have done, how I won't be able to go out any more, all that crap. It passed after my first paycheck and when I realised that even though I was working I still had time to do my own thing. I've actually been in touch much more frequently with friends outside of college because I make a point of doing _something_ on the weekends.

Why can't clubs happen any time soon? Don't just sit on your hole during the weekdays.

{EDIT} Holy f**k that CAPTCHA is a bitch.

Phototoxin

I think so.. its a bit of a downer as you want to either revert to happy easy carefree (ish) life or else begin 'real' life as it were.

chickenhawk

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does everyone go through post college depression? kind of like, fun over, work begins... it's gettin to me really bad

Yes. But you have options.

1: Go back to college. Won't really help. It will never be the same and you'll have to move on sometime.

2: Get a job you love. If you are in a job you love you'll soon forget about college.

3: Go traveling. It'll give you new experiences etc etc.

Otherwise keep in contact with all your friends as well as making new ones and have a great time everytime ye meet up.

been work since end of july.. like the job alot, still see people from college a bit, they're all doin masters.

im the first out of anyone i know to get a real job... and i feel completely and utterly detached from everyone i know. instead of drinking buckie under a bridge, i'm taking up golf again and talking mortgages and cars with my 25-30 yr old work mates.

thats not me like.. no one in work plays halo or guitar hero, no one in work worries about what pub has cheapest pint, no one in work goes acts 21 i guess. and my friends that do, well i feel like i dont belong.. cause i dont.



maybe thats a reason for bein on such a downer for last month or two, gettin landed wit a different age group? i only actually thought of this since i started typing...

Phototoxin

Phototoxin wrote: »

I think so.. its a bit of a downer as you want to either revert to happy easy carefree (ish) life or else begin 'real' life as it were.

debt decided that :P

pwd

I was quite down when I finished college too. Like lots of people I couldn't get a job at all for a few months when i finished and had to move into parents' houses. Didn't know many people in the area, people from college all dispersed all round the place. Yeah finishing college is sh!t. Most graduate jobs are sh!t. More advanced industry jobs can be annoying too. See if you can get funding for a research postgrad. That's what I'm doing for the last year and it's fun (in a different way to being an undergrad).

i loved college but i wudnt go back.. i like how once work hits 5 o clock, its over. sayin that, if i was in college i wudnt be writing this thread..

i duno, whenever i feel like this, i usually think move to my brother in australia.. now its actually possible?


and another weird thought.. usually it's lack of friends in an area that makes you feel lonely. right now, i feel lonely cause i feel so detached.. i honestly think i wudnt feel so out of place if they weren't in the same city as me.

jeez im gettin a bit too deep here i think

mashling

Its now been a year since I finished up, and its still tough.
No more trampolines and wednesday afternoon pints.

I headed out last night with a bunch of friends who are still in college, and while they got in free, I had to pay.

I just thought that that was symbolic

Wagon

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does everyone go through post college depression? kind of like, fun over, work begins... it's gettin to me really bad

Can't say I have. I like being able to have the 9 - 5 job which i quite like, and not work weekends so I can do whatever the feck I want for 2 days straight. I don't have assignments hanging over my head, I don't have tests to study for in the evenings, I like not being broke. Collge pissed me off in my final year to the point that I was absolutely delighted to leave the bloody place after 4 years

besides, who says "fun over"? you can travel now and stuff and have the qualification so you'll find it easier to get work if your abroad. You can drink more if anything!

nyarlothothep

I depends how you approach it, you can go in for all that 9-5 rat race bollox or you can set your own objectives and decide when and who you want to answer to. I work, but I don't let it affect anything in my life, I never let work determine what I can and can't do with my time, and I'm going back to college to work in another industry which will be more fun and then I'm going back again to work in college because I love college. That college the second time it won't be the same as when one is an undergrad is true so that makes it a different rather than lesser experience.

mashling

mashling wrote: »

I headed out last night with a bunch of friends who are still in college, and while they got in free, I had to pay.

I just thought that that was symbolic

had the same thing lol doesnt it make ya feel fekin old:rolleyes:

Wagon

Wagon wrote: »

Can't say I have. I like being able to have the 9 - 5 job which i quite like, and not work weekends so I can do whatever the feck I want for 2 days straight. I don't have assignments hanging over my head, I don't have tests to study for in the evenings, I like not being broke. Collge pissed me off in my final year to the point that I was absolutely delighted to leave the bloody place after 4 years

besides, who says "fun over"? you can travel now and stuff and have the qualification so you'll find it easier to get work if your abroad. You can drink more if anything!

yea ur rite i guess.. jus gonna take time to adjust. havin money is fekin savage tho. i've spent 400 euro in the last 7 days, nothin to show for it nd it doesnt matter.. a year ago, that wud have lasted 5-6 weeks.



since i started this thread, i think i've worked out that it's the age gap in work, im just 21 and next person up is 25 wit most people round 30-35.. thats in an office of 50+ people lik. basically i feel seperated from them and then i feel seperated from my college friends because well.. they're in college.

now for my mission during novemeber, get a few of my friends to drop out