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Why I’m Not Moving to Florida

If you had asked me as little as three months ago where I wanted to live after college, I’d have instantly replied Florida—the epitome of warm sunshine weather and cool breezes as far away from Michigan winters as humanly possible, ignoring last year’s snowfall of course.

When I began my job search in September, I tried at first to filter first on places with warm, temperate climates that I knew would be a big change from the blizzard-filled winters I’ve lived with since age 8. However, as the process of looking at the actual job description begins to weigh more heavily in my application decisions, I’m realizing that geography is not and should not be an important deciding factor.

So, after much internal grumbling, I’ve stopped graphing the average December temperature of every city I look at, focusing instead on what it is I will actually be doing in these jobs that I write cover letters and primp resumes for. And imagine my surprise when I found the most interesting jobs in the marketing industry—at least to me—are in cities like Chicago and New York and even in New Jersey suburbs. There isn’t even one in California to make me feel a bit hopeful about next winter.

What I’ve come to realize, and eventually accept, is that many of my friends and peers are going through this process as well; and it is a decent-size part of growing up and making mature decisions about what I want to do with my life. I know that I want to work in brand management or possibly advertising, and when it comes down to it, the best decision is to find a job that helps me gain skills in those fields that I will enjoy doing, even if it means I’m stuck buying yet another pair of winter boots next November.

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