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28 | May 4, 2017 | The Northbrook tower northbrook northbrooktower.com Annual Mother’s Day Sale Diamond Earrings 30% OFF Now in progress through Saturday May 13th Savings of 20% to 60% on ALL in stock merchandise! All Silver Jewelry 30% OFF Pearl Jewelry 25% OFF All Anniversary Rings & Bridal 20% OFF Soave Oro Collection, Officina Bernardi Collection, Baby Gifts, Watches MODELS OPEN from $529,000! www.franzjewelersltd.com Serving the North Shore for Over 50 Years 10:00 www.meadowridgenorthbrook.net 847-559-9800 GREEK CUISINE A Touch of Elegance... A Taste of Greece CELEBRATE MOTHERS DAY! Open at 12pm —Call for Reservations We Take Pride in Serving Our Guests: Hormone and Antibiotic Free Meats, Imported Octopus from Spain, Our Herbs and Oils Are Imported from Greece. OpenTable Award Winner 2017 2601 Navy Blvd., GleNview, il 60026 | 847-832-9000 yaNNis-Greek.com Advertise your RE<strong>NT</strong>AL PROPERTY in the newspaper people turn to first CALL US TODAY: 708.326.9170 www.22ndcenturymedia.com
northbrooktower.com sound off the northbrook tower | May 4, 2017 | 29 Social snapshot Top Web Stories From northbrooktower.com as of Monday, May 1 1. Philbin makes solo debut at Irish dancing 2. 10 Questions with Joel Zimmerman, Glenbrook North boys track and field 3. D225 Board: GBS, GBN migrate from quarter to semester grading system 4. Glenbrooks add unique twist to ‘Fiddler On the Roof’ 5. Lucky Fish to likely feature on-street valet parking Become a Tower Plus member: northbrooktower.com/plus Northbrook Junior High posted this pic from their school garden on April 22. Like The Northbrook Tower: facebook.com/northbrooktower Travel here, there and everywhere with us during the 48th annual Northbrook-On-Ice production. Get your tickets. @nb_parks The Northbrook Park District tweeted on April 15. Follow The Northbrook Tower: @northbrooktower From the Assistant Editor The incoming graduates Sarah Haider s.haider@22ndcenturymedia.com Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s plastic graduation caps being thrown into the air. In the next three weeks, college kids will return to Northbrook in hordes, many with a brand new, stiff diploma in hand. Toward the end of the month, a new batch of legal adults will march across the stage at Glenbrook North, move their cord to the other side and make their way into the real world. Between graduation parties and the freedom in the summer sun, we seasoned adults often forget one thing about this past time in life — it’s terrifying. Even though the graduates are all adults, they are just starting to stumble into the dance of life. Think Ben Braddock in “The Graduate,” returning home after excelling at college to proud parents and a party full of people thrusting their secrets to success upon him while he is the midst of one of the most confusing and scary transitions life has to offer. Braddock spends his time staring into a fish tank, worrying about his future, before his parents remind him there is a room full of people waiting downstairs to congratulate him. Our graduates are seeing the big, scary world for the first time down from the safety of their ivory towers, worrying if there is a place for them, and we are so eager to remind them it’s all waiting there for them to dive in. I officially graduated college a year ago with an unwavering determination, a positive outlook and the shadow of the fear of failure following every footstep. It was a struggle at first, filling out dozens of online applications, the equivalent of shouting into the void. Three months in, with the ever-present realization that I had just spent a ton of money and time at a university, my hopes went to finding the perfect job, to a job that paid well, to literally any job. But I got lucky. Through a series of events that started with asking my friend’s mom’s friend for a job, I was directed to our local trivia host at The Curragh, The Northbrook Tower’s past Assistant Editor Riley Simpson, which ended with me getting an offer for a job I wanted to take: this one. Thankfully, I didn’t settle. I scored a job that challenges me every day while getting to cultivate my passion working in a community I care about. I can see now, from my stable position, that it was always going to be all right and I would always find my way, but then I felt like I was standing at the bottom of a pool wearing a 100-pound metal diving suit. While I understand the excitement for our graduates, I caution patience and understanding. It’s a hard market to be entering. The average time to find a job after graduation is three to nine months. Even once the first job is snagged with a sigh of relief, it still doesn’t mean the search is over. Just take a look at GBN graduate Nathan Ross, who went to law school before moving out to L.A. and forging an unconventional path to being one of the most successful producers in Hollywood, or John Geary, who started off in advertising before following his passion in live music, now managing one of the most up-and-coming venues in Chicago. Finding the path of the passion to dedicate our lives to is not easy and usually not direct. At times, it is grueling and seemingly hopeless, but I believe it may be worth it. If you have already found yours, remember the journey it took to reach it and as we watch our graduates finding their own way through struggles and success, remember they are trying. They will want to succeed just as much, if not more than you want to see them to succeed. And with a little time, a lot of determination and a support group of family and friends, they will. The Northbrook Tower Sound Off Policy Editorials and columns are the opinions of the author. 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