Why You Should Blog

After I graduated from college, I am just as stressed as though I should still be back at school. My friend who is still at school keeps telling me "now since you graduated you can do whatever you want!" I said back "not true, I need to look for a job before the summer is over." And that is all I've been doing: job hunting. It's very tiring, tedious, and can result in being reclusive and you find yourself not out with your friends. To avoid that, my friend suggest blogging. I don't blog for money. Since then, I've found blogging to be a lot of fun and I encourage college graduates to do the same. Here are my following reasons:

1. Makes you get out more - Ever since I started job hunting I've been reclusive. I found myself that I didn't go out as much as I wanted to because I found that finding a job is a full time job itself. Reason #1 is the major umbrella reason why a person who just graduated from college needs to start a blog. On my blog I love reviewing a restaurant I recently went to with my friends or I blog a trip I went to over the weekend or talk about an outfit I bought for really cheap for an event. I think if I want to make my blog interesting, I should get out more.

2. Record your long term and short term goals. I feel you're more likely to achieve them. - Usually after one graduates, one thinks "now what?" There's no exams to study for in real life and there's no homework in real life so is one to do? Well think of something--anything-- Would you like to travel sometime in a year? Would like to go back to school and get your masters? Do you want to eat healthier or cut back on fatty foods? Any goal you come up with comes in stages so having a blog helps you keep track by recording milestones. Reading the process of how one gets from one place to another is exciting.

3. You get an audience - Some of my friends have blogs and they're my audience and I even have the rest of the world my audience too. I encourage going to networks on the intervet such as 20sb.net or maybe if you have a blog that specializes in a certain thing such as outdoors, green living, my life as a medical school student, there are websites for blogs going towards those topics. From there you benefit new information, new sources, a network, and an audience. With an audience you get supporters through your comments when you blog about the goals you are trying t achieve. And you might meet your audience someday.

4. Expresses your creativity and your passion - As a science major, I didn't have the time to give myself creative room. I feel that blogging gives me a chance to write an opinion about an article I read, I've posted pictures from places I've traveled a few years ago and reminisce and talk about how I wish I'd like to go there again, I like to share my two cents on how I've been job hunting, etc . I enjoy taking inspirations from every day life. The possibilities of writing a blog are endless.

5. Give you a break from daily life and routine - I feel that blogging gives you time to reflect and it's therapeutic. After a long day at work in my part time job and going through the efforts and frustrations of looking for a full time job, I love to vent on my adventures on job hunting and trying to find ways to make myself a better applicant. Or another way for me to vent is talk about bumping into old high school classmates I haven't seen since high school graduation and it's feels so accomplishing how four years of college have past by and you just think about how far you've come.

Anyways the best reason about having a blog is that there are no limits. So fellow graduates start one today! Don't sit in that couch because you're unemployed or if you're employed, don't don't be stuck in the 9-to-5 rut! Get out and find inspiration today!