Today was the second last day of my
MBA. I honestly have NO idea how and where my two years have gone. This ending
is turning out to be more bittersweet, turbulent and emotional than I thought
it would be. After all, I'm 28 and "all grown up" now, right? I
should be SO excited to start my life, get paid, have a normal life? Au
contraire, I sit by my bed with a glass of wine, with a coldplay playlist on
spotify, desperately trying to convince myself to write this paper when all I can
do is think of everything that's fallen behind me and how much I dont want to
move past this crossroad. A lot of people I care about will leave Austin and
move to other places in the US for their jobs, I'll move into my new house- my
first (long term) live-by-myself experience.
It's amazing that these melancholic
feelings are clouding the excitement that my parents are coming here in 2 days
AND the fact that I just booked my tickets for a Chicago-Boston-Bufalo-New York
trip in June.
In my High Tech Marketing class our
Professor left us with a lot of things to think about. I spent all day going
back to his words, letting them swirl in my mind.
"Give
your life to something you're passionate about : No one ever went to their
grave thinking 'DAMN, I should've spent more time at the office"
"When you
begin work, save up enough money to build a "FUCK YOU" fund. A years
worth of pay. So that if ever, in your working life someone asks you to
compromise on your principles, or go against your ethics you are not bound by
the argument of 'I have a wife and Kids, I don't have a choice". We sent a
lot of students from this institution, good people just like y'all to place
called Enron. Today,
they're all unemployable."
"Find that one
thing that makes you want to wake up everyday, and the one thing that makes you
want to go home each night"
"When you were undergrads, it
was your employers responsibility to hone your skills. You're now at the very
tip of the iceberg, the top 2% of the world which gets a top masters degree
from a top school. What's your value proposition? Find one."
He showed us a picture of his
family, a very lovely one and said those are his three reasons to go home each
night, and thanked us for being the reason he wakes up each day.
