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PLEASE PLEASE HELP |
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Degrees, Internships, etc. |
| Date Posted: |
03/12/2002 |
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Experience.Experience and Experience. Boy, how naive was I when instead of looking for a job or internship I was trying to keep my grades up. 4.0 GPA does not count for shi.. these days. Finance degree is only usefull while hiking in the woods without toilette paper ( the paper on which the degree is printed must be scrunched before application). YOU are luckier if you have an accounting degree but without expirience ... yeah go hiking without toilette paper. I wish someone told me a year ago to start working as a garbage man for Salomon Smith Barney or on of the Big 2 ( Andersen is deep in whateveryouwannacallit)- at least I'd had a chance to meet or may be hand my resume to THAT Mysterious someone in HR. It seems almost useless to send the resumes because noone reads them ( they scan them on the PC and read only the ones that have the "key" words: experince, WORD, EXCEL, I KNOW YOUR MOTHER... )
Well - if somebody will read this memo and that someone is still in school - My advice to you - run and get an internship or a part-time job, work for free just work.
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The degree that counts is the one you loved studying for, expanded your horizons and had fun with - the subject that you had a passion for. The same applies to your job search.
Follow your bliss and forget everything your parents and family told you and programmed you for. Do what you love doing.
Carly Fiorina, in her graduation address to Stanford grads last year said (and I paraphrase from memory): "after graduating from Stanford law school, I was standing in the shower in my parents' home when it came to me that I had no desire whatsoever to be a lawyer, and I resolved not to be one." She's now the Pres/CEO of Hewlett Packard and negotiating a deal to merge with Compaq. What a woman, huh?
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