Moving Home After University

It may not be your first choice, but moving home after university is an option more and more graduates are taking. Faced with the daunting combination of student debts, expensive housing and a lack of employment opportunities, more and more find moving home after university is the only option.

Follow Two Men And A Truck’s tips to ensure you have a smooth transition from university back into your parents’ house.

Get Busy

Don’t slip into holiday habits if you have not got a full-time job straight out of university. TV binges won’t help you move forwards and motivating yourself gets harder the longer you leave it. Focus on getting some work experience and applying for jobs.

Make the most of the summer too. It will probably be the last one in a while where you will not be working.

Talk it out

The move back home can make you wonder what all that growing up at university was for. The regression from adult to overgrown teenager can be almost instantaneous.

Don’t resent the situation – talk it out. Talking honestly about how this huge life change affects you is the only mature way to deal with it.

Give Back

A condition of moving home could be paying rent or helping towards bills. Even if this isn’t the case, contributing whatever you can afford is a nice way of showing how much you appreciate not being homeless.

Another way of earning the all-important brownie points is to demonstrate your newly acquired cooking and cleaning talents.

Change your ways

You may have picked up different ways of doing things, but try to respect how your family live. You may enjoy your 3am cooking, but your parents may not.

However, it is reasonable to expect some degree of freedom. Compromise is key.

Stay positive

If you find the move demoralising, remember that you’re not only one. Chances are that you’re friends are in the same position.

Also, remember there are certain positives: you can eat decent food, save money, detox your liver, watch Sky TV and have as many baths as you want. It could be worse.

It’s also temporary – and if it really is that bad, you could always go travelling.