Life after graduation?
After a busy month of August, doing lots and nothing at the same time, I am trying to finally go back to a daily research and work routine. To start off my week (yes, my week started today, before that I was dying from my sore muscles post-Mt Fuji climbing), I did my usual tour of the Internet and my multiple accounts: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn.
Right after LinkedIn, I stumbled upon this article of the NYTimes, reporting about recent college graduates who, facing the poor economic and career perspective that was awaiting them, had to find other ways to enjoy life.
It was a strange paradox. I had just finished browsing my contact list on LinkedIn—which consists of my fellow engineering school & uni friends— and I was at the point of thinking that all of these position titles were kinda preposterous (I mean, blabla Project Manager, blabla Engineer, blabla Consultant at ABC Big Company), and reflecting on how I would like to have a stable job with a nice salary at the end of each month. And when I had just started thinking that bleh, Big company names really sound annoying (even thought it might not actually be), I got this tweet notification, with the above-mentioned article.
Thinking back on these past few weeks, plenty and empty and where-the-hell-did-August-go, as well as these past few months, which were full of action and emotion (Tohoku, Fukushima, anyone?), as well as a lot of “things” happening around the person I am on the web (yeah, sounds pretentious), I’ve been wondering. What satisfies me most at the moment, like right now, is wandering around the web, reading stuff, commenting, writing, discussing. Hoping for a better world, wishing I could be part of it, wanting to be meaningful to some people at least. Thinking about working for the UN, then finally not, wanting to work in humanitarian groups, then not anymore, considering some technical job in some weird place.
Well I’m a bit lost now. I yearn for the day I graduate and go to that other world, the professional world, and at the same time I am so frightened! But in a good way. I want to meet people again and again. Talk, recreate the world in words, share ideas. Innovate. Give. Teach. Learn. I want to go in these kinds of places. Maybe I will find this in a Big Company, or maybe not. I’m still looking around, wandering on corporate websites, to know if these companies are really what I need.
Sigh. I should be nominated as Chief Care Bear someday.
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