Information Related to "Here's to New Adventures..."
| Audio/Video |
About
a year and a half ago I graduated from college in western Kentucky and
moved to the big city of Washington, D.C., to begin my career. As I packed
my clothes, books, photo albums and Disney movies (yes, all 30 of them)
and told my friends good-bye, I envisioned this new job and new world
to be my biggest adventure yet! Yet, "adventure" is
a matter of perspective. Sometimes we end up calling them "trials." But
no matter what you call them, they help you learn and build character.
And when you can finally look back and evaluate them, you realize they
really are adventures! Let me illustrate.
I had spent a good portion of the previous three months
before my move finding out all I could about the big city and trying to
find a place to live. But since so many places kept telling me there was
plenty of availability, I didn't make any concrete plans with the intent
of scoping out the apartments for the pick of the litter. Piece of cake,
eh?
However, when I finally made it to D.C., all of the places I had called that had "plenty of availability" seemed to be booked to capacity. The places that did have empty apartments would rival my old dirty college dorm on any given day (minus the friendly college neighborhood and double your monthly tuition payments). I had three days to find a place, move in, get settled and start work and it wasn't looking good.
After all other options were exhausted, I put a deposit down on an old high-rise building with a monitored front entrance that was in a less fortunate side of town. To kill time until I could move in, my father (who was kind enough to help me move) and I went looking at the expensive apartments and eventually were referred to a free apartment search service.
Related Information on UCG Sites:
Table of Contents that includes "Here's to New Adventures..."
Other Articles by Karie Greider
Teens and career: