Questioning

I'm not sure if I really belong at Carlson anymore. I was in BA and reading the syllabus, it didn't really apply to me. We have to research a company we'd like to work for someday. I don't want to work for a big firm. I don't want to go be an accountant or marketing analyst for someone else. I don't want to submit my resume to our career and internship recruitment program. I love my job at Gopher Grocery and would much rather work there next summer than for Deloitte. We're supposed to do an informational interview with someone in the field of business we'd like to go into, but I don't think I can really interview a baker for it! Maybe an entrepreneurial baker. I don't want to go to networking events sponsored by General Mills or go to the Career and Internship Fair to look for prospective employers.

There are a lot of people in my BA class that are Entrepreneurial Management majors, but I question their desire to really start their own business. Do they even know what kind of business they want to run? Or are they just trying to prove they can think for themselves? Will they end up just working for one of these big firms because they're afraid of their own creativity and incapable of actually getting something started? I feel like my generation shuns authority and tries to appear independent without actually being so. We're all cowards.

I am going to make an appointment with a career counselor to see if my skills and desires actually do fit into the Carlson way of life. We're bred to go into the big corporate world for a big box company, but not everyone must submit to that! I just need to talk with someone to help make Carlson work for me and my goals. I got into this school and I can come out of it with the education and tools I came in looking to receive.