Venting

This time of year can be very stressful —

• Graduate school pressures have started to intensify.
• You are readying yourself for the placement centers at national conferences.
• This spring is your very first job search.
• You may have outgrown your first professional job.
• Or, simply, it is time for a change.

One of our previous graduate student bloggers spoke about the importance of venting, being able to let off some steam with one or two individuals when necessary. They can be close friends, a supervisor, even a parent. Their function is more to listen than to offer advice; someone who knows the occasional irrational rant is more a product of the job search than your sanity. When the stress level begins to overflow they are someone you can turn to in order to help relieve anxieties, apprehensions, dread, heart palpitations, nervous tension, tenseness, and plain old worry.