Schooled
Well, I’ve undergone a 15-month hiatus, but like Russ Grimwold, I’m back. It’s been quite a while since my last blog post, and a lot has happened in that time. I don’t want to go so far as saying that the last year and a half has been a period of introspection or whatnot, but after graduating last December, I was able to kind of decide where I wanted to be and where I wanted to go in life. In the past, I always wrote about the fact that I had all the time in the world to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I was wrong. Sort of. Graduation hit last December and the real world was upon me or so I thought. I applied to about 100 jobs in the South Carolina/Georgia/North Carolina area, spanning the career areas of parks and recreation, sports management, sports journalism, and recreation in general. The amount of feedback that I got from different companies and agencies—or rather the lack of feedback I received—surprised me. There were several jobs that I applied for that eith...