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Site logo image Claire Hernandez posted: " I was eating out with my two friends who are architects. "Now that you're architects, does it get any easier?" I asked. I'm currently studying architecture and an intern for a construction firm for two weeks then. They both answered a hard no. B" Claire's Essays

Surprise! It doesn't get any better

Claire Hernandez

Aug 29

I was eating out with my two friends who are architects.

"Now that you're architects, does it get any easier?" I asked. I'm currently studying architecture and an intern for a construction firm for two weeks then.

They both answered a hard no.

Being an intern for the last two weeks, made me see the realities of what my future would look like. In a sense, it was hard. Hard because obviously I' still starting out and there are many things that I still have to study and master. But it also occurred to me to ask my friends if it gets any easier, especially now that they have years of experience.

And the fact that they answered No was something that I have expected them to say but maybe I was hoping it would be the opposite.

"The only difference between you and us is that we get paid for it," they added.

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After my week in the office (again, as an intern) one thing that I could say is: How do people spend decades of their life working in the office?

I now understand when people say that you're 26 now and the next thing you know, you are already 40. In other words, the days just passed by when you are working. Same thing for me. I was given things to do and the next thing I knew, it's already 5 pm. It's scary when so many hours just passed by a blink and yet I felt like I barely did anything that mattered.

I also now began to understand why people chose to watch on Netflix after they got home from work because well, your mind and body are tired from commuting and working so, you just want to lie down. Realizing this, I respect my mom more and more. When my mom worked an eight-hour job, she would still have to do household chores and cook dinner after work. I cannot imagine how she could manage to do that for years (Love you, mom).

I now understand why whenever I asked my sister, "How's your day today?", she always answers, "It is just the same as yesterday."

Because it really is just the same. Whenever I interview people about working their job, even when they are working their dream job or not, they answer the same thing: most of the time, it is mundane, boring, and just the same thing as yesterday.

In the past, I was naïve to think that my life would be so much more adventurous after I graduated, but it's just the same. How you feel about life and yourself does not miraculously change after an external achievement. Life does not get easier. (I'm trying to learn that) Its life. But the beautiful thing is along the way, you will meet amazing and cool people and experience adventures that make the journey worth living.


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