Finding harmony post-grad: alumnus Alyssa Ashe highlight
Lane Koch, Associate Writer
Senior year is incredibly hectic. You are dealing with career plans, internships, relationships and your last classes all the while being bombarded with the nostalgia of your past four (for some of you 5) years. It helps to take stock along the way and look to alumni who have made it through.
Alyssa Ashe graduated from NGU with her BA in Broadcast Media. Presently, you may have seen her interviewing political leaders as Chief Anchor for Right Side Broadcasting Network.
Picture received from Alyssa Ashe
“It has been a crazy whirlwind,” Ashe said about her transition from NGU to the workforce. “I found the job on indeed.com and applied. Then I interview and get the job… Now I am living in Alabama and working for a company with travel opportunities. For the past couple of months, I have covered almost every single Donald Trump rally across the country.”
From NGU she was able to learn the technical skills necessary for her career.
“Mass Comm really taught me the video production skills I needed…No job is one thing. Sometimes I am reporting, others I am helping with P.R or marketing.”
But transitioning from the NGU community to professional adult life can be challenging.
“It was difficult for me. I am an extreme extrovert, so it was hard to find a community…NGU really is a bubble, not in a sheltered way, but people are close; I lived with 8 great girls in Chinquapin,” Ashe confessed. “I found community in a church but still, trying to find harmony with a job that is 90 percent of my life can be hard.”
Ashe continued with advice for seniors.
“My advice is don’t rush into a job. Take some time…I took a month after I graduated to be with my family and collect. It was so nice to have that time with my family. Weigh your options and pray. Auburn was never on my radar; now I live here. I work here. I have a community here.”
Ashe finished by saying, “This time in our lives, we are all just figuring it out. Honestly, I am still figuring it out. But just giving it to God and trusting him to work it out really helped me find not balance…but harmony.”
