The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

Reeves contrasts the ceremonial promise of graduation with the immediacy of economic reality. Instead of a transitional summer or college planning, she describes moving straight into wage-seeking, suggesting family need, limited resources, or a pragmatic sense that opportunity required work first. “Back burner” frames higher education not as rejected but deferred—an aspiration subordinated to survival and responsibility. The line also foreshadows a common narrative in popular music history: formal credentials yielding to the pressures and possibilities of employment, hustle, and talent-driven careers. Its plain, chronological phrasing (“the morning after…”) emphasizes how quickly youthful dreams can be reshaped by circumstance.