It’s sometimes disturbing how much my methods of thinking are narrowing down to financial, statistical and computational analysis. I wonder how different a person I would be if I had not chosen these majors, and my current job.
Now that i’ve had a stern talking to and my continued enrollment in the University of Texas is confirmed at least through December of 2007 (and hopefully also at most through December 2007) suddenly long term employment is less than 12 months from now as opposed to slightly more than 18 months. This means that I’ve got another summer for potentially interning. I’ve got a part time job that pays less than an internship i could get over the summer, but has potential to become a full time job that would be acceptable to say the least in terms of being in Austin.
I’m not sure what the implications would be of taking a different job for the summer, but many application deadlines are over the next week, so i just farmed my resume out to 8 or so employers, half in Austin, half elsewhere (including one in Seattle (Amazon.com), somebody needs to slap me). I’m not sure i can accept any of them, which makes me feel kinda weird about potentially interviewing with any of them, but I’m not sure if it’s possible to even make half of what I made last summer working at ACM. I guess it all comes down to the NPV of the uncertain full time position.