UNCONVENTIONAL PLANS.  Like many second-years, I think a lot about what my next move is. Right now, I'm still in the information-gathering phase. It's easy for me to panic when I see my classmates in their spiffy interview suits applying for jobs at Microsoft, Intel, Amazon (where I don't intend to return), and the like. I begin to feel as if I am falling behind, having not submitted a single resume to any of the corporations doing formal MBA recruiting. Then I take a deep breath and remember that my goals and needs are different from my classmates'. I don't want a conventional MBA job (not that there is anything wrong with one), therefore why on earth would I apply for one?

I think landing me gainful employment has become the "brass ring" for Susan Canfield, the interim head of our career services office. Susan has gone out of her way to check in with me and try to find connections at companies such as IDEO (my dream employer, if I end up deciding against self-employment) or local firms I find interesting. Perhaps it is because I have publicly (such as in this journal) expressed doubt that the BCC office is equipped to help me that Susan works so hard for me, or maybe the BCC folks are knocking themselves out for everyone this year. In either case, I appreciate the attention, but don't know if the help will speed my progress.

Perhaps by the next time I write, I will have a more certain plan for life after graduation. For now, though, I have some ideas, options, back-up possibilities, and schemes I'm cooking up. Anyway, a little idle time, should that be my fate come June, wouldn't kill me. Since my preteen years, the longest stretch I've ever not had something to do has been about three weeks. Other than that, I have always either been working or in school or both. I'll come up with something to do.

Although I still have two more quarters packed full with classes, work and other obligations, and I have miles to go before I graduate, I await the future with interest.

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