Give me something to write that’s straight-forward, with facts and quotes, and I’ll give you something great.
Ask me to write an editor’s reflection, and I’m clueless.
Is that what this next stage feels like – cluelessness?
I remember dreaming of being a teacher and then a band director. I remember four months before graduating high school I had my whole future planned out.
And now I (technically) have the immediate next steps figured out, but I still don’t know so much about my future.
I don’t know where I will be in 5, 10, 15 years. I don’t know if I’ll live in Nashville like I plan to. I don’t know if I’ll get a job as the editor of a fashion magazine or be a traveling journalist for big fashion events. I don’t know.
And even as I walk across that stage on Dec. 15, I still won’t know. Graduating is one step in the big life goal, but not the ultimate tell-all of life, and that’s something I have had to learn.
Since starting college, I’ve never really known my next step. I never knew exactly what I was doing or how I was going to get where I am now.
What I do know is I took the opportunities that were presented to me. When Stevie reached out to me about writing for The Daily Helmsman, of course I said yes and continued. I didn’t always like the stories I was assigned, but I put my best foot forward in each and every story given, and before I knew it, I was named managing editor, and then editor-in-chief. I am forever grateful for these opportunities and the amount of experience I’ve gained from these and what I can do with it in my new job.
It's exciting and terrifying at the same time stepping out of being a student for so long to being a full-time legal assistant, but I can’t wait. I can't wait to see where these next few years leads me.
Thank you, University of Memphis, for the support and programs, and thank you, The Daily Helmsman, for the experience of a lifetime.
Now, onto graduation and my new job, and…then what?
