So here we all are back at Smurfit School after a well-earned break. The time off for Christmas and New Year has recharged everyone’s enthusiasm, so much so that most people didn’t mind coming back. But when we were back, we were back. There was no allowance for easing ourselves back into the routine – we were straight into assignments, readings, presentations and more readings and more assignments. The time off we enjoyed seems like a distant memory now.
One slight difference I have noticed this term has been the increase in mutterings about jobs and applications and “what are you going doing next year?” Surely it’s much too early for that I thought (and hoped).
However in reality it’s not too early. At the end of this term, it will be March and we will be going on our International Trip. Before we know it, April will be upon us and then the panic will set in! And if we are to be honest with ourselves, it is the reason we signed up in the first place. Whether it was to get a leg-up in our chosen profession or for a change in job, it was all about the career at the end of the day.
So onwards and upwards as we commence our search for gainful employment in earnest! I had better make my way to the Careers Office.
– Donal O’Sullivan