What comes next?

So results are in, resits are due and graduation is upon some but what comes next for many of the University students around the world?

I've been asking myself what comes next for the past year;

Where will I end up after my degree?
Will I get a grade employers will be interested in?

Will I actually pass my degree?

What do I do on my placement year?

But having thought about it does it really matter? OK yes it does matter if you get a job and if you actually pass the degree but does the grade have to be a high 2:1 or a 1st, No. employers will look if you passed not what you passed by, does the job have to be in your chosen field, No again employers want graduates it doesn't matter what they read for. 

I'm reading for a BA in Tourism Business Management but do i have to go into tourism? No I could go into an everyday desk job, retail, teaching anything as long as your hearts in the job and you have a passion for it and enjoy it who cares other than yourself for example if you studied for a Music degree and now work doing statistics for Rugby League?

NO ONE! That's who no one as long as your happy why should anyone else be able to criticise your academic and career based decisions? 

however the most important question I find that keeps popping up with myself is do i still want to be there?

and this is a decision that other people around you (friends, families, tutors) should be able to care about and help you with, ever since the start of second semester I've found myself contemplating whether i still wanted to be a university student or whether my heart was in the real world out working and traveling and growing my non-academic skills and knowledge of how the world works. In the end I've decided i need to stick at it and carry on for the next three years and leave uni in 2016 and then find my way in life but for some that isn't the case and if that's you i think you should sit down with those around and discuss what you should be doing and what is going to make you happy... if they really know and love you all they'll what is for you to be happy

Laura xo