I have been a career counselor for over 15 years. It became clear to me that there were two distinct aspects to the problem of the many college students. The first, and probably the more intense was fear of the impending separation from the safe environment of the college. The major cause of avoidance of any kind of planning was the students' imminent entry into a world of work about which they knew little. I learned that students became immobilized because gripped by an insecurity relating to the world outside the college walls. After all, this would be the first time in their lives that they would not be in school. Through the years, they have been successful at studying and passing exams and now they would be without a prescribed curriculum for the first time in their lives. The rules of success in the world beyond the classroom were not the same….or were they? What, in fact were the rules out there? Outside the safe environment of the college they would faced with many choices for which there would be no right or wrong answers. Real life would not resemble a true or false exam for which they could study.

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