This entire semester, I’ve been looking for jobs. I’ve hunted on Hot Jobs and Career Builder and Monster. I’ve looked up hospitals and nonprofit organizations and even sports teams, all in search of my first job. The entire time, I’ve assumed I’m going to end up in Memphis. I’ve never imagined myself anywhere else.
My college is teeny tiny. There are about eight hundred students enrolled here. It’s an amazing place, and I love it more than anywhere else in the entire world. A lot of our faculty and staff have attended school here, and all throughout college, my friends joked that I’d be the one to stick around and work there. I had always kept the idea in the back of my head, but all the open jobs didn’t apply to me. And now there’s finally a job that works for me, a job I had always thought I’d end up doing when I graduated, and now all the “I’m moving to Memphis” thoughts have changed to “I’m staying in Jackson.”
After the job interview experience in Nashville (post coming soon!), I’m really nervous about the job interview in Memphis. Working in Jackson would make my life so much easier. I wouldn’t even really need a roommate since almost everyone I know would still be in Jackson. And I would get to work at the place I love most. Of course, this is all pending a job interview … but I just don’t know.
The chances of me getting a job doing exactly what I want to do are basically nonexistent. No one is that lucky. Well, I’m not that lucky.
All of a sudden, everything I thought was going to happen is thrown out the window. I thought Memphis was it for me, but maybe Jackson is the way to go. Maybe Jackson is the place for me right now. Let’s just hope I get the interview.
Memphis can wait, right? We’ll see how everything goes.
