August 30, 2005 11:11 AM

Diploma, done. Now what?
Posted by Douglas Eisenhartat 11:11 AM

The Boston Globe has got an interesting occasional series running from correspondent Benjamin Toff, a 2005 college grad who is waking up to the real world and the demands of getting a job:

These days, two months after getting my college diploma, I'm shocked if I can make up my mind about what I want to eat for lunch.

While it's not yet keeping me up at night, the anxiety surrounding that first job out of college has begun to spark more than a few existential questions. I was warned about this feeling -- the sudden fear of life's shapelessness, the terror of having no structure. For years, my choices have been confined to options neatly organized within the pages of a course catalogue. Now there is no book. The freedom has left me spinning.