Wrapping Up

As I'm sitting at my desk wrapping up my final projects and reports, I'm left wondering what the future holds for me.  College is nearly done, and my life is about to begin.  How did that happen!?  I still feel like a freshman or even a high schooler.  There is no way I am mature enough for the "real world."  I have held the same job for the past five years, and know nothing but that.  I'll be graduating as a history major and with a minor qualifying me as an underwater archaeologist.  Wonderful...how will I combine those into a paying job?  I have been toying with the idea that maybe I will just run and hide in the Caribbean and teach people how to scuba dive at a ritzy resort.  That would be quite the cultural submersion!  I would see people from all over the world, and experience cultures I would never dream of coming in contact with.  While that sounds like a good plan, I'm sure my family would have something to say about my escape from the real world.  I just don't see myself as a person who could hold a 9-5 job.  I don't belong at a desk, and I can't stand the manipulation and abuse of people in the business world.  I just want to enjoy life, and I don't know if that is possible holding a constant job.  As graduation looms, I think of the book "Into the Wild."  That doesn't sound too far-fetched to me anymore, but as opposed to a cold destination like Alaska, I would escape somewhere closer to the equator.  I tend to be a warm-weathered person.  I guess we will just have to wait and see where I end up, and what kind of work I will be doing.  Hopefully I won't be stuck doing some insignificant, mindless work at a desk in a cubicle somewhere.  Good luck to all graduating, and I hope the real world is good to all of us!