Life After College: Does Your First Job Matter?

Here’s an unpopular opinion: what you do in your life after college, in the first few years, actually does matter.

At first, that might not sound like an unpopular opinion. After all, schooling is becoming increasingly aimed at activities that prepare people for “real jobs” post graduation. However, these days we tend not to take what young people do very seriously. A high school kid wants to be an artist some day? That’s cute. It’s a phase. He/she will grow out of it. A biology major wants to be a doctor one day. Eh…most biology majors don’t end up going past bacherlo’s level education.

After all, young people change jobs at an alarming rate, right? So why do they need to pick what they want to do by the time they leave those gilded halls of academia and sojourn out into the real world?

Well, it’s because of this thing called momentum, and it dictates that what you do after college really does matter.

Your First Job Lays the Groundwork for Your Future

The thing is, you always can start over. The other thing is, you may not always want to. That tender age, be it twenty, twenty-two, twenty-five or later, when you leave education behind for good may seem like one big open road. However, as you age, you quickly realize that the…