“Adulting”

Hello all,

We just recently started talking about cover letters and resumes.  I have written a resume before, but I have never written a cover letter.  I do understand the purpose of a resume in the sense that it is used to scan a large number of candidates in a short amount of time.  It is used to show off somebody’s skills, experiences, education, achievements, etc… in a professional and subtle manner to a potential employer in hopes for an interview.  As in terms of the cover letter, I understand that it is a way to summarize your resume, introduce yourself, and show some sincerity to your future employer.  Having never written a cover letter before, this definitely going to be outside of my comfort range.  Thankfully for me, I think I will have a very strong foundation built for my ability to write cover letters and resumes soon enough.

Earlier today, I was at a career event presentation that was put on by the EGGS (Environmental, Geographical, and Geological Science) department.  They were offering job openings in all of their offices that are spread out across Pennsylvania and New Jersey.  Since I am currently a sophomore in college, I was simply there to learn more about the field and do some networking.  If I were to be a senior right now, I could have given them a cover letter and resume and hoped for a call.  I think it is quite a disadvantage that if I never took a class like the one I am in, I would have a resume and cover letter that would be predisposed to making employers want to walk the other way because of its potential ineffectiveness.  I take this matter very seriously because there is a great deal of information that I want to express to a potential employer like my work ethic among a list of other qualities. 

Among all that has already happened today, one of my closest friends told me that he is about to make the biggest decision of his life so far.  My friend, Eli is very close to signing on the dotted line to start financing a house.  He wants to rent out one half of the house out to two tenants and the other side would be for one of my other friends named Cole who signed the lease with him.  Eli lives very close to Bloomsburg and plans to keep commuting to keep costs down while Cole and I are going to live in the house.  Both of my friends want to put whatever money they can into real estate investing because they both have taken enough classes and done enough research to maximize reaping the benefits of real estate investing.  Eli is double majoring in business administration and political science while Cole is majoring in global business.  I am very happy that they are more informed about this whole field than I am because I am not.  With all of this being said, one of the things that Eli and Cole have done for a while now is read and learn to break down to understand the fine print on a legal document.  They have both informed me about the basic logistics of leases.  From what I understand, knowing how to read tediously and technically written leases, contracts, and other legal documents is a useful quality to have.  It can be just one word that can change the entire interpretation of the lease.  At the end of this class I do not expect to go through a lease that is ten times longer than that of this short blog, but I do hope that I will at least be somewhat more aware of very technically written documents like that of a lease.  With all of these events happening, it makes me want to think about the future because I think it is hard to not to.  The “adulting” that I think that many college students refer and joke about is a very serious matter.  It should not be taken lightly because the odds are that everything will come all at once for many of us, and we all should be prepared for them should they happen.