Transcript: Goodbye to STU

Jody Nabuurs – Um, well I’m not really sure and I think that’s normal so I’m not really worried about.  I have a summer internship with a newspaper um, and from there I can apply for a one year internship, whether I will or not remains to be seen.  Um, but I have no idea, like I’m really, I don’t know, like when I came here into this program, I wanted to be a newspaper reporter and if that works out that’s great if it doesn’t that fine.  I guess I like the idea of uncertainty to extent, I think it would be kind of boring if I said “oh well, okay, um on May 1^st I start this and there I’ll do that for 35 years.  Like I kind of look forward to sort of having the uncertainty and sort of having those you know, change is exciting to me so I’m fine with you know being there for four months and then… I’m not fine with unemployment and poverty or anything like that, I hope that never comes my way, but sort of changing jobs and sort of you know, new things happening year after year is kind of one of the most exciting things I think about graduating.

Jason Murray – I’m not really too worried about the future because I’m, my wife and I have sort of been working the last 15 years or so and we’re at a point in our lives where we’re excited about the unknown. So we’re not sure if we’re going to stay living in the Maritimes or whether we’re going to move, we’re not sure if we’re going to live in Canada or if we’re going to live in another country, so the options are wide open for us, we don’t have any children, um the only thing holding us back is the house but we can sell it and move on.  So yeah, I’m excited for the future.

Stewart Corbett – I’ve applied for a few jobs already, all over the country and one is actually down in the states.  So I’m just waiting to hear back from any of those, um I’ve tried to aim for jobs that have something to do with journalism, or somewhere in that area, and if I don’t get that then I’ll just find something to make money and pay off the debt. [Are you afraid that it might come to that?] Um, I have some anxiety about it because um, my mom is actually is currently unemployed and she’s been trying to look for jobs and she’s having a hard time finding something that’s in her field which is travel.  And so I guess for someone that’s just starting out, coming straight out of university it’s sort of scary seeing someone who also has a university degree who’s had decades of experience and is still trying to find a job in their field.  So I guess it’s kind of scary.

Corrine Frost – um, I’m definitely looking forward to not having eight-thirty classes anymore, um they’re a killer to get through.  I don’t mind being up early it’s that I actually have to sit there and try to pay attention.  I look forward to all the celebrations and getting ready to move across the country, move where my brother and his girlfriend are actually so, and I haven’t seen them in two years, so I’m excited to see them.
I’ve been looking on job banks and the CBC site and the CTV site for jobs, journalism jobs in Calgary, there’ve been a few but there start date was like a month before graduation so, but I’m sure jobs will come up.

Ayat Abed Isaid – Well personally I have mixed feelings about leaving, especially for me coming from a different country.  And my mom told me, do not get attached, that’s when, before I left home.  And I got really attached to the place, university, my friends, some professors, everything.  I mean I came here with nothing, like no English, I had no self-esteem, no confidence, like nothing and that has changed in my four years here and that’s what I’m going to miss, I’m going to miss the way that people, how friendly they are, how much they appreciate like everything that you do, even if you make any mistake, they’ll always say, oh good job, good job.  And I became a different person and I’m afraid that back home I’m going to miss that person that’s here right now because I won’t be the same person back home.  I can always come back, yes I agree, yeah [would you consider it?]  Coming back, it’s going to be really hard, I miss my parents so much, I mean it’s like, sometimes I’m crying because all my friends are leaving me but then, ah, my dad, my mom, my sisters, I miss all their birthdays, and I miss all the religious holidays that we have back home for five years and I really want to go back and see this, and experience it again.

Gilean Watts – Um, I’m feeling a lot better now, I have a job.  So that’s comforting so I had an internship lined up and I wasn’t really looking forward to that so I was going to be looking for something else come September.  But I got a full time job offered just a couple weeks ago so.  [where’s that at?] At Here Magazine [As the editor?] No for the Fredericton reporter, so I feel a lot better about that, it’s full time, I actually have benefits, a salary, so.  But it’s scary, um you know there’s so many things you don’t think of, like cost wise, like I’ve been under my parent’s plan forever and now you know you have to pay for prescriptions.  You have to pay for insurance, and car insurance and car payments and renter’s insurance, things like that that were always covered under my parents but now I have to pay for them on my own.  And even things like cell phone bills, my parents always paid for that too and now I have to pay for that.  And I know it makes me sound like a spoiled little kid but [you don’t want to grow up?] No, I don’t want to grow up.
I think I’ll miss the freedom, um you know, it’s not a nine to five gig, you get to go to class, go home, have a nap, you know, do your own thing, go on Facebook, check your email, then go back to class.  You know that’s probably what I’ll miss the most, um you know, not having somebody dictating to me, where I have to be, when I have to be there.

Tj Milburn (with Gilean Watts) – After next month I don’t have any plans but I’ve never really had any plans.  I’m not the same, Gilean comes from a very different background than I do.  Where $30 thousand, $50 thousand is considered starting wage, I come from a family where $30 thousand, $50 thousand is where my parents want to be in 10 years.  So um, I’m not really um, Gilean worries more than I do, which maybe it’s a good thing because when she gets carried away worrying I can calm her down, but when I don’t worry enough, she can get things done.  Um, but no I’m not, so far I have no concrete plans, I have a couple job interviews with stuff that might be interesting for a little while.  Um, no lifetime plans.  I mean I just, you know, something will fall into place.  [ so do you believe in fate?]  Uh, not really, I believe in dumb luck that I seem to …
Gilean; my mom always says, my mom’s favourite quote to say about Tj is that he falls in shit and comes up with roses.  He never makes any plans but he always manages to do well. [and how much do you think you influence that?] I think um, I don’t know, I think by proxy he picks up on some of my success.  But I think that it helps that I have more stability in that while he’s floating around looking for, you know, the right job, I’ll have, be bringing in the money.  [you two will be moving in together?] Yup. [Big step?] Yeah, that’ll be a big step.

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