Time, certainly, has strange ways of playing games. Last year, around this time, with a couple of internships lined up, I was excited and felt confident that it would only be downstream from there on. For once.. complacency was groveling with me and begging to creep in.
Fast forward to a year later, things look so different. I have yet another internship offer. But at this point I have to be true to myself. I don’t need another internship. Getting a job seems to be more important especially if you are going to put in so much effort into finding either one of them. I never quite imagined that I would be using the on-campus recruiting as crutches to find a job. Networking is not paying off much. All the goodwill I built up during my internships last summer is lost as I realized (when I reached out to my friends and bosses) that they don’t work there anymore.
Still ruminating what to do.
If the passing year has taught me anything, it is this: linearity as a concept has limited appeal in real life.
Especially with the headwind in the economy.
