I hope everyone is having a great week!As part of my college lesson series, I wanted to talk about joining an organization during your college years. By being in organizations, I was able to grow and develop myself beyond my peers’ abilities. You are probably wondering why would I join an organization? I am already going to school, maybe working, and overall, trying to manage my first adult experience. Joining an organization has many benefits. Here is how you can benefit:
- Develop relationships with your peers
- Gain professional skills
- Make friends
- Advantage when applying for scholarships
- Potential to take on leadership roles
- Stand out in employment and graduate applications
- Great addition to your resume
- Student government
- Residential Council
- Honors Program
- Toastmasters
- LULAC
- Sorority/Fraternity
- Professional Organization
- Religious Organization
- Volunteer organization
Quick Update: It’s been pretty slow on my end. I am currently going through the background check of my job, and will start working at the earliest on June 25th. So I have decided to concentrate on this blog! I hope to be posting regularly, and to have more organized content. Hopefully, I will have new changes this summer! I, also, want to concentrate on getting some side income. Maybe I can baby sit or tutor? Any tips? As far as our personal expenses go, I need to start working on our budget; a task, I unfortunately, find unpleasant. It always breaks my heart to see how much we actually spend on eating out.
SavvyFinancialLatina
I wasn’t involved in a lot of school organizations. I worked full-time and that pretty much made it impossible. I wish I participated more though!
It would have been impossible for your to be in a student organization while working full time. I hope you can join one when you are done with school. There are professional orgs for financial people!
I’ve been thinking about toastmasters for a while. This gave me the kick to start looking into it seriously.
Toastmasters is a great organization! I loved it. It helped improve my public speaking skills. I highly recommend it. Plus, there are clubs all over! You could even start one in your company.