Graduate Development Programs

Making the transition to your graduate job, you will find that for most of your day will be spent either at your desk or in a meeting for hours on end. Spending all that time seated (and probably hunched over a keyboard) is not really good for your circulation, posture or anything other than working!

Most graduates will find themselves gaining weight when they begin their careers as their lifestyles undergo significant change. It doesn’t help that many will acquire the habit of munching on junk snacks at their desks through the day and often late into the night.

You can counteract this change in your lifestyle. If you didn’t like the other three suggestions, then I am guessing you are definitely not going to enjoy this one. Exercise. There are so many benefits to you from exercise it would take me forever to list them.

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The nature of work and study have much in common to begin with, but the differences become evident very quickly as you settle into your graduate program.

The differences stem from the purpose of each:

- Work requires you to learn a skill and add value by repeatedly applying the newly acquired skill.
- Studying requires you to learn something new, prove you have learnt it and then move onto something new.

The repetitive and structured nature of work does take some understanding and requires acceptance because it exists in every job you will ever take on. Even if you are a project based professional such as a consultant, architect, engineer etc where no two assignments are exactly the same, the process you engage to address the assignment will soon enough resemble a repetitive pattern.

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