Time to find a job

I guess it's the disadvantage of a one year program. Only 6 months into the program, we are beginning our job search. The two weeks between the end of finals, and our Argentina trip are pretty much set aside for job searches and workshops. We have two days of company presentations where companies like l'Oreal and McKensey come on campus and give presentations about their organization. The first one was last Friday, and tomorrow is the other one. There will be two more days of it in August. I am going to l'Oreal, McKinsey, and Amazon tomorrow. We get two hours for each company, one hour of presentation and another for imformal socialization. I guess it's pretty impressive. This year, 30 some companies are recruiting on campus, and there are only 90 of us. It is looking to be a good year for us.

For me, going through all these presentations is not just seeing companies, but also forces me to really reconsider my original intention before I came here of wanting to go into consulting. The attraction of being a consultant again, the fast paste life is all pretty exciting. But am I really ready to go back into that? And is that what I really want? It promises a certain level of success, but are the trade-offs really worth it?

I have been talking to Stephanus, a classmate from South Africa. He was a trader for RNB, and was really successful. Right now, he is trying to make a choice between going to London, back to the trader life (or lack there of working from 8-midnight), doing exciting stuff he wouldn't have the oppertunity to do in Jo Berg, and going back to Jo Berg, make a very comfortable living but give up the oppertunity to strike it extremely rich in London.

So, is this what we thrity-somethings all confront in our lives?