I’ve been a slacker for years. I’ve hopped alot of jobs. Mostly computer stuff that I didn’t really care about. Now I have a bachelor’s in a field I don’t really want to work in. I think I know the sort of stuff I want to be doing, but the comparatively few places that are hiring such can afford to hold out for a relevant graduate degree. And I didn’t get into grad school.
Bleh.
My current job is the most satisfying work I’ve had in a long time. I feel more productive than I ever have. And both of those are kinda sad statements given how I feel about my work.
I’m not going to end up truly happy with my work any time soon by incremental hill climbing. I need to take a leap somewhere. I just wish I didn’t have to spend so long building up speed for the jump.
The challenge is turning this from killing time to a real growth experience. I feel like my work ethic is stronger than its ever been. I guess my next major hurdle is actively integrating into the web of workplace communication. Hmmmmm.
Oh well. Bed time.
grad school
Where did you apply? Maybe there are some other places that would be happy to have you.
Re: grad school
Where did you apply? Maybe there are some other places that would be happy to have you
The more relevant question might be “When did you apply?”. The answer would be at the last minute.
I got into U chicago for this year, in public policy. But I wasn’t sure that it was exactly what I wanted to do, and I didn’t want to go about accumulating massive debt for a rough draft of a life proposal, no matter how good my sources.
As it turns out, this may be for the best. My interests are still being refined. Public Policy is the right general direction from computer foo, but now my interests seem to be veering into transportation planning and policy, for which there are specific programs available at MIT and Berkeley.
Re: grad school
Ah, if only every student, college level or above, delayed his/her education until he/she was sure what to do with it. That would save a lot of money & student debt, would probably put a lot of schools & fraternities out of business 😉
I’ve never liked how our American culture assumes that having a degree is automatically valuable, divorced from any consideration of what it will be used for, or whether the bearer of the degree cares to use it. At my private high school everybody was expected to go to college, period, and not just any college, but a “prestigious” one, the “best” one they could get into. The high school would then brag about how many students got into the “best” colleges.
And don’t get me started on law school … very little of my day to day work as a tax attorney depends on anything I learned in law school, but I couldn’t get this job without the degree & the bar license.
Re: grad school
Oh! Come to MIT…
Re: grad school
Honestly MIT seems more implementation, and less policy focused (shock). Which is sort of the inverse of where my interests lie. I will have to examine it more closely. Perhaps when I come out for the bike ride.