Am I cliche or what? Graduating and promptly moving to Disney World and writing a blog about it. Over done, but bear with me. This is a big time in my life. Time to be the adult I have been trained to be. Time to learn the ways of money, freedom and responsibility more than ever before. Sue me, I'm starting a blog.
If you're reading this, I am assuming you are family excited to hear about this next phase of my life or you are a close friend waiting to find new material to taunt me with (Great friends, right?). Regardless, here is a little introduction:
I am Sadie Rosenthal, senior communications major and Spanish minor. I am all set to graduate from Oklahoma Christian University on April 25, 2014. That is 33 days away.
I started my days at Oklahoma Christian as an eager, undeclared freshman. I thought seriously about concentrating on family studies, but then I learned how narrow that career path was and I ran out of the DAH as fast as possible. Don't worry, if that's your major you will be the best social worker out there, I know it. I then half-heartidly declared myself as a public relations major. Everyone else already had a major. It was either choose one or be the idiot who is going to an expensive college for no reason. It worked out for the best because I actually began to like PR. I switched to communication studies for the sole reason of having more career options and that is where I stayed, and it turns out that I actually really enjoy writing. I wrote for the school newspaper for almost two years, got a marketing/communications internship at an adoption agency that allowed me to write feature stories for them and now, here I am, a freelance writer for a national news organization (JustGOODNews.BIZ).
Not only have I had the opportunity to explore the writing side of my career field, but I have also enjoyed being employed in the admissions office at my university. Yeah, I have a lot of potentially boring days where I sit in a call room for 5 hours and make annoying phone calls and end up getting hung up on half the time (just call me a call girl!), but I have also been able to give tours, speak on panels, go on road shows and much more to help recruit. I love that part of the job. Why sit in an office when you can be connecting with people? My career goal is to spread joy. I have treasured my past four years at Oklahoma Christian. Recruiting new students and allowing them to feel the same joy I have felt here is the best college job you can ask for.
Now, this last year has been a challenge. 15 hours of school, social activities, internships and a growing case of senioritis all paired with applying for job after job has proved to be a much bigger struggle than I ever thought it would be. I started by applying for any job with communication in the title. However, this job search began to show me things I wanted in a career and things that I didn't want. While the question of if I was okay with relocating and/or traveling kept appearing, I began to remember how much I love to travel and how free I am to do as a please at this time in my life. With those two things in mind, I aimed big. New York, California, overseas, anywhere. Of course, I really don't have any connections to those places, but it didn't hurt to try right? Once New Year's came and went, panic began to set in. I had said all year that by Spring Break I would know what I was doing with my life. Well Spring Break was two weeks away and I had no clue. Cue laying on my couch late at night watching Friends re-runs eating half-priced valentine's day boxed chocolates. It was a rough time.
Well I began talking with some friends who had gone through the Disney college program. This past summer that is what I really thought I would do, but then the pressures of becoming an adult during senior year and "growing up" set in and led me away from this idea and closer to the idea of getting a "good paying" job. However, once March made its way, the Disney College Program kept being mentioned. I kept hearing of more and more people applying for the program or past Disney alumni sharing their adventures. I thought, "why not apply?" So on a whim, not really expecting to go through with it, I applied, had a web interview and a phone interview short after. After my phone interview, I became obsessed with checking my email. This is a sign, I thought. I really wanted to do this and I was just beginning to remember how much. Three days after my phone interview I learned I was accepted and I was offered a hospitality role in a Disney resort starting in May! As I write this, I am realizing how everything in this chain of events has been from God. He nudged me over and over this semester to apply for this program and he is allowing me a chance to work in the travel industry, which I have come to realize is what I really hope to do for the rest of my life either with or without Disney. So I'll start with a Disney internship and continue to pursue this dream from here on out! What better place to start than the happiest place on earth, am I right?
So now here I am, about two weeks later with a plan set in stone for post-grad life. I will be moving to Orlando, Florida to work at a Disney World resort very soon after graduation. I start on May 12. I already have roommates to live with in Disney and we are all so excited to start this chapter of our lives. I can't begin to describe to you how happy I am to be leaving what I know and to start this adventure. I know this is the right thing for me to do. Don't get me wrong though, I am extremely sad to say my goodbyes. So if you are a friend of mine and you have stuck with me through this ridiculously long blog post, please set a time to have dinner with me and say goodbye before I leave. I love Edmond so much, but it is time to see where else God has made a place for me on this earth. The thought of leaving hurts my heart so much so please make sure to say goodbye since I really don't have a plan to come back.
Well thanks for sticking with me if you did. I promise this blog will have shorter posts filled with cliché updates on life of an adventurous communications major.
