10 March 2008

The rise, the fall and back to the future

The last couple of days have been strange somehow. Last friday everything was quite normal. Jacob, one of our dutch buddies celebrated his birthday on saturday and threw a party on friday at his place. After trying to be a friend for certain people at the party and help them overcome some issues, I woke up pretty early saturday morning after only a bit more than 5 hours of sleep. Still with some power left I wrote my part for our final report of a group project and went grocery shopping and all even before lunch time. Deciding that I already did enough for the day I started to relax, watch a movie and procrastinated my jogging to sunday. The evening was quite special as well as almost everyone just stayed at home - so did I and watched some more movies.
Unfortunately though on sunday it was raining. But I overcame my inner bastard and went jogging for 40minutes in the rain and it was quite fun. That's when I got soaked for the first time, but I didn't mind as it was intentional. Afterwards a friend wrote me that she's kind of bored and we agreed to go for a late coffee at around 5pm. When I drove to town it was still raining which was a bit more annoying as I got soaked for the second time, but this time with causal clothes. Anyways I still was in a good mood and it even got better when I came out at home in the evening and wanted to head to our regular happy hour at Concordia - and I saw the stars in the sky. But then after Concordia the fall begun. First of all I had some problems to open the lock of my bike. I felt it already the days before that it got worse but still, it always worked. Then today I had classes and when I wanted to leave I really couldn't open that damn lock - I had to try for almost 15minutes until it finally worked. I was late and so pissed that I didn't want to use the lock again - but of course the stores weren't open to buy a new one. So I somehow faked it at uni and put my lock around the wheel without really locking it. And I was glad and lucky that my bike was still there after classes. But then - of course it had to rain again and when I arrived home (after buying a new lock on the way) I was soaked for the third time in 24 hours! Anyways I started to study and now I feel quite good again.

Beside that nice little story I started really to think about my future. I got my last grade from St. Gallen on friday and it's getting more and more obvious that I'll be done with my studies in the end of may when I come back. So, huge question now is where to apply for a job. I'm mainly interested into consumer goods, technological stuff and highly marketing (branding, PM, online marketing) related stuff. And what annoyed me a bit some weeks ago was, that half of the companies represented at recruitment fair in St. Gallen were consultancies and banks. But as part of my process I decided to write an entry in the forum of an online community and stating that I'm looking for an entry position in marketing. Now, today I got a message from a company which is maybe interested. But the irony is: it's a strategy consulting company focusing on the sectors leasing, asset management, real estate and private banking...

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