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I’ve decided to take the job offer from FroggyMart.
Working at MoogleTech has been the comfiest stint of my life. I’m surrounded by good friends. I work great hours. The work is intellectually challenging. I get to indulge my artistic side when we hit interface design.
Most importantly, thanks to MoogleTech, I can deliver a concrete, tangible good for end users to enjoy. I am no longer a smartypants useful only for analyzing ethereal things. The builders of the world have always been my heroes. That’s why I went against the grain Senior year and promised myself that I would ignore the Ivy Canon: law school, med school, grad school, i-banking, consulting. I wanted hard construction skills only. Mission accomplished.
On the other hand, never in my life have I been so out of touch with the world. I think back to my summers in Asia. I used to interview old grannies. I used to blitz museums and night clubs with pen and paper in hand for the inside scoop. I used to go out of my way to meet expats and locals. Now I spend my days with my head stuck up my own logic, obessing over the MoogleTech JavaScript API.
Obsessing over the tiniest nook of the tightest cranny on a bump on the wall. That’s the problem with specialization. Pigeonholing becomes inevitable.
I can roam to another industry or two, picking up more hard skills. I’ll complete more projects and feel more competent. But I’ll be too narrow-sighted, and a vagrant heart like mine isn't satisfied until it has the world for a stage.
I think it’s time to switch strategies. It’s time to consider business, followed by business school, followed by entrepreneurship. Retail is only ten-years old in China and the iron is red hot. FroggyMart directly embodies the development of China. The business they do covers the entire textbook. I can’t think of a better real-world MBA, and I’ll get my Mandarin really up to speed to boot.
Goodbye MoogleTech. Goodbye comfort zone. It’s time for this quant-head to 懂 some serious 事.
