Tennessee vs. South Carolina
No, I’m not here to rehash the beating that Tennessee took from South Carolina in the only game of the season where I will actually root for those nasty Gamecocks. Although you will hear me mention USC again in this post…
I’m here to discuss the very real fact that I might be moving back to South Carolina. Soon. Like within the month. There are some of you out there that already know the story and have heard me mention this, but I feel it is necessary to explain the situation fully, not only for those who don’t exactly know what’s going on, but also because it’s helping me make a really hard decision.
(To all December and future RIM graduates – if you don’t already have a job lined up or have connections somewhere, I’m terribly sorry. We might have had the most awesome degree program ever during college, however it’s quite useless in the real world. Find a part-time job and start your own company.)
Everyone knows that after graduation, I moved the 25 miles up the interstate to live in Nashville and be closer to my job at Sunglass Hut. However, I decided in September to remove myself from that job and go elsewhere. It is now December and I still haven’t found that elsewhere. And it’s not because I’m not looking. If I was a RN, I could have had a job at Vandy, Baptist or St. Thomas like two months ago. (Note: I did just send in my resume to AristoMedia, however the position doesn’t open until January, so who knows when they’ll be doing interviews.)
When I originally decided to put in my two weeks notice, I was going to finish my two weeks, go to Italy, then come back and get a job. However while I was in Italy, the economy decided to tank, which is now screwing me over. I know, I know, I should have stayed with Sunglass Hut until I actually found another job; trust me, I’m kicking myself now for not toughing it out. I was just way too unhappy with the situation.
Either way, here I am, still unemployed. And now it appears that my best option might just be to move back home. I don’t want to give up on Nashville yet; I love this city and all of my friends are here, but at the same time, I have to get my life on a better track. So the deal is I either find a job soon or move home.
I’ve been weighing this moving home option in my head a lot over the past week now. I moved out of South Carolina four years ago and vowed never to move back. However, I’ve also grown up a lot in the past four years and have come to realize that Greenville really isn’t a bad place. And the job market seems to be way more open than Nashville’s.
If I move home, I will automatically be saving my parents a lot of money, because yes, they are having to help me out with my rent and bills. And I really hate that feeling. However, I will also have to live with them again, and having to give up my awesome one-bedroom apartment is not my ideal situation. Then again, I will be able to save a lot of money since I won’t have to worry about paying rent, electric, water and internet bills.
I have also been contemplating going back to school. I cannot make the move to London until 2010, so it seems that law school would be the better option at this point. I would actually need to take the LSAT, since I’ve only taken a practice one, and I know I’d actually study if I was at home. I do have a list of schools: USC, Ole Miss, GA State, UGA (for Rachel), and probably Charleston School of Law. No offense to the Nashville School of Law, but I know I can do better than that, but I’m not Vandy material either. I also have tons of connections to lawyers and law firms throughout SC thanks to my aunt and various members of my country club.
I have also been thinking about going back to Sunglass Hut, but just not in the Nashville area. I left because of my regional manager and unfortunately, he controls the entire state of Tennessee. However, I have emailed my former zone manager, who is based out of Atlanta to see if maybe she can help me get back in the company. But if that becomes an option, then that definitely means a move out of Nashville.
I guess it seems that most of my options are going to require a move out of Nashville. And I think that I have truly realized that in my head but I’m just not willing to accept defeat and move on from it yet. It takes so much more to actually move home than it does to move away from home.
-k
Wow, I can totally relate to all of that. Seriously. I moved here a little over four years ago from Oklahoma, and it was great. I was on my own, I met a lot of really cool people who shared the same interests as me, I went to school and worked a crappy job and loved all of it. And now here I sit, a week from graduation, loathing the thought of having to move back home to live with my dad because I won’t have a job, a place to live, etc. But I’ll have a somewhat meaningless piece of paper! Anyway, I think you’re right. We should all just go out and start our own businesses. Surely with all the people we know and the vast amount of knowledge we have collected we can come up with something viable. Except I’m pro-tech, so I’m just screwed because I no nothing about business. But seriously, I think that’s the right idea. Work some bs job just to pay the bills and spend every last minute of your free time working on creating a business and eventually you can quit the other job. That’s all I have to say about that.