While all of us enter b-schools with some aspirations in mind, in the rat race to get that desired job we forget that this may also be the last time we are in an educational institution. While most people cannot associate the first 2 terms with anything other than the rush to summer placements, we seem to ignore all the memories we made and the friendships that grew tighter just by supporting each other.
Jobs are slowly being equated to the paychecks associated with them and not the happiness that the work you’d do would give you and what’s worse is that we’re all equally to blame. In the day 0, day 0.5, day 1 run, we forget what we really ever wanted to be.
With the burden of loans, growing up, and responsibilities to take on, we forget that we really are just students who are figuring out where they would really fit in. By merely being guided by the CTCs the companies have to offer, we tend to overlook those things in life that would really give us pleasure.
While I don’t agree with aiming higher or wanting the best for ourselves, I really do wonder if the best for someone else is also the best for me? Additionally, I always ask myself if my best is that highest paying job on campus or the fanciest company visiting campus?
To be fair, I don’t have the exact answer yet, just as most of you will not, but it is essential that we think through and try to realise what we really want after removing the blindfold that this race puts around our eyes before it’s too late.
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