Opportunities

So for the last three weeks I have been sending emails to companies and employees asking them if they have any current opportunities available. I have spelled "opportunities" wrong just about every time. Luckily I have spell checker enabled on my emails... whew. Anyway that is definetly not what I logged on to say. I have to say that I feel that I have so many opportunities in front of me. Most of this has been due to my own hard work and dedication in creating these opportunities, but I can't stop thinking, man I wish that I had less options. Now I know this is a competely ridiculous thought. I realize that I love the fact that I have such a blessed life...that I would never turn my back and spurn God's wonderful gift to me. However at this present moment I have to answer the question, "what do you want to do?" so much that I feel like I should start putting a sign on my head with all the different options written in bold with subcategories below. It might look something like this,

Consulting
Management
Human Resources
Strategy

Retail
Sporting Goods
Outdoor Goods

Financial
Financial Planner
Investment Broker
Venture Capitalist (i know its hard and like impossible, but hey somebody does it)

Entrepreneur
"so whats your idea?" (this is where I proceed to tell them that I picture myself more in the management finance type role and I am looking for a partner that does not understand the phrase, outside the box, typically they laugh and say good luck)

So I think I will just print this out and email it to everyone I know and carry around a copy copies with me so that in the appropriate situation I can whip out the handy duct tape and attach it firmly to my forehead...

But on a serious note, those paths above are all the ones that I can see myself pursuing and being happy doing them. Of course that doesnt mean that I have job offers from any of those paths...(actually job offers are at a big fat zero right now). But those are all fields that I could see myself succeeding and being happy pursuing. However, the right path is not always as easy as it seems...It seems obvious to me sometimes that I should pursue this path: Consulting (two years) MBA, Management, Oversee Small Entrepreneur firm, Merger or IPO at 35-->retire (yea). Hold on I just woke back up for a strange dream where I sailed a yacht around the world from age 35 to 90, ahh I see I also just wrote it up... option 2 puruse financial planner at firm, work way up to bigger and bigger accounts, then complete rest of path outlined above. Option three, work at retail store, move up through corporate ladder...

I am rambling... I am honestly not usually as scatter brained as I think this blog makes me out to be. I think that I use this as a vent for extra thoughts that don't have the opportunity to get out any other way. But what I think I am trying to say is that I am excited and nervous about this next decision that I am going to be making soon about when and where I will be working. It is the waiting that kills me, I am somebody that needs to actively pursue a task in order to be satisfied knowing that it will be complete, but this job search is such a passive process. Send out resumes, do follow up emails, call people, arrange meetings, then when all that is done...sit back and wait...and wait. But thats OK I just need to focus on enjoying what little time I have left in school to enjoy it and cherish the time I have left with friends that have become my family for the last four years. Soon that family will be stretched across the world and I will truly miss them all.

It really only hit me the other day that my CC family will be scattered across the globe come this spring. I was left feeling very empty, we have all been there for each other for the last four years and in the course of a few months we will all scatter and will probably never come together as a group ever again. I hope that we can reconnect in some way, in some place, some time...but my cynical nature doubts that slightly. But anyway dinner is calling me and I have been typing for far too long about nothing especially important or vexing. Good night for now.