She wants to utilize her finance degree and become a financial advisor. He wants more experience in the film industry and to possibly start his own production company. Like so many other young professionals, everything they've learned so far about their careers they've learned here, but unfortunately for Lexington, their successes will most likely be a boon for another city and state.
Laura Canada, 25, and Kyle Colvin, 24, have been dating for two years, and when he wraps up his broadcast media degree with special interest in film from EKU this spring, the Kentucky natives will test the waters of new cities, as have many friends who left Lexington behind shortly after obtaining degrees.
Lexington doesn't meet their needs for entertainment and fun, and now that their college friends have taken flight to cities with diverse options for work and play, the couple feels they have a choice: basically start over in the city they already live in or begin anew in a place better suited for their desires.
"(In Lexington) there aren't that many places to meet people," said Canada, a personal banker for Chase, a 2007 grad of UK and a Maysville native. "There isn't really live music very often or too much going on. There's not really a place where you can mingle with people that you don't know. That just doesn't really happen in Lexington. Everybody has their set groups, and unless you get introduced to someone and happen to hang out with them through some random circumstance, you're not ever going to get to know them.
There's a perception that to enter a Lexington-born clique