When ENOUGH is ENOUGH.

Hey QTs! So there's been something bothering me and I just can't seem to shake these emotions. All summer, I experienced a lot of stresses that pushed me to make grown woman decisions and I can truly say that it wasn't the easiest thing to do. After graduating from undergrad, I was super anxious about what to do next, which I like to call 'the gray patch of the unknown'. Not knowing what to expect helped to build my faith and practice taking my career seriously. Right after graduation, I was offered a job at my university for the summer months, but after that program was completed, I was still going to be left jobless. Why should any graduate feel like this?

After years and years of hearing people talk about how hard it is to find a job after graduating college, I was now living proof that the struggle was going to be REAL. I studied Africana World Studies and Sociology in college, but there weren't any good jobs available in that field...so I had to make my dreams more of a reality and started planning out what I needed to do to get to where I needed to be. Luckily, I had the support from friends and family to push myself out of my comfort zone and into a place of reassurance and determination.

I was on the hunt to try and find work and lo and behold I was offered a job at a well-known hotel to work as a Guest Service Agent and I immediately said YES. I was overwhelmed and excited at the same time because this job was nowhere near what I studied for four years in college. I knew that I had to swallow my pride and work here until I land on my feet. Once I saw that more people were interested in seeing my ideas flourish, I found myself becoming more passionate about explaining talking about it. Things weren't as scary.

This summer taught me how to be consistent with the things I truly cared about: my happiness, finding a job, and even publishing this blog. I finally told myself, "Enough is enough, get out there and fight for what you want, Ke." There will be times when you have to decide for yourself if you're going to live in a shell for the rest of your life, or use the things that make you angry and turn them into a driving passion to get shit done!

As people and women of color we are already going to be seen as being in last place. For some strange reason, society puts a label on people of color assuming that good things may never happen for them. I am waiting for the day to look back at all I was tired of people getting in the way of my happiness and I chose ME. If people think that's selfish, then so be it.

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Stay tuned. Peace and love.

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