Career or Job?
As I am going from interview to interview, I realized that I am no longer a desperate college kid who just needed money to pay for new shoes, new textbooks, or a fancy dinner date. I am now in control of my future. With job offers coming my way faster than I can process that I will soon be out of school, I am overwhelmed.
What do I want? What am I looking for? These are questions that seem easy to answer when in an interview but when it comes down to accepting offers, it has a lot more to consider. I am not choosing a part time job in which I can just quit and search again but I am choosing a career. Just like everything else, where you begin molds you as a person.
What makes a job a CAREER? Is it the potential that you and the company have? Is it the culture of your workplace and the trust and relationships that come with this job? What can make me love this job and make me want to stay and develop a career? How realistic is my budget constraint? My mind races with so many open ended questions that it is terrifying for me to even think about picking and choosing.
Many advise pro and con charts but nothing is ever black and white. Perhaps I should just go with my gut feeling. My gut feeling sent me 500 miles from home and I would not change my years at Davis for anything.
With all this being said, this is clear from my final destination. Life is all about trial and errors. For example, Alibaba's founder Jack Ma was rejected from 30 jobs before he is where is now.
I hate uncertainty but at the same time, it is so fun.
