Your degree over – or nearly over – you contemplate your next move, rather like a game of chess. You plot your next move, you fall into it, or someone makes you fall into it. Life is continually like a game of chess, but checkmate – the end result – is entirely where you or someone else decides it is to be. You can plan to move forward and make progress, or you can feel like a pawn, moved around a board at someone else’s bidding.