Post-Grad
When you are in high school, you dream of college, then you dream of how great everything will be after college. You think you will have a great job, or in my case you will jump head first into a successful acting career, right after you snag that diploma you spent four years working for. Sweet sweet post grad… After graduation, I ended up having ankle surgery, running from a fire all the way home to Texas to recover, found my puppy, landed a job in LA that was a scam and had to get out of that, did Mamma Mia with my mom, went back to LA, booked a swig job in a world primer of a musical and met incredible people, survived a pandemic, got out of a relationship, become happy and move back to Texas, worked at a bookstore and realized I liked digital marketing, move to Houston while taking a class at Rice in Digital Marketing, made new friends, met a man, finished the class, spent a year trying to find a job in marketing only to realize that my heart belongs to the theatre (still looking for a marketing job), ended things with the man and that is that. That ridiculously long run on sentence is my post grad experience thus far. This journey I’ve been on hasn’t been close to easy, but I have learned a lot about life and about myself. I’ve learned that life happens, paths change, and it is really okay to not know what the hell you are doing or what direction life is propelling you in. If you asked me before my senior year what I would be doing right now, I would without a doubt say that I would be acting, constantly auditioning or traveling with a touring company if I was lucky. BUT LIFE HAPPENS. What I recently had to remind myself of after all of that is my self worth. It is easy to get caught up in the pauses and turns life throws at you. It’s also easy to lose confidence (I’m working on that one currently) . The best advice I can give you and give myself is not to give up on what makes you happy and take everything one day at a time.
