Of gutfeelings and MBA students

There is nothing like spending an hour of one’s Saturday evening ironing a few shirts at home. Yeah, I had a backlog in my closet and I have finally caught up. It is the most boring thing to do. At least in the meantime I have pumped Los Planetas on my laptop (iTunes has been the only application running because otherwise it won’t work or it will overheat and shutdown – my nerves are cracking) again. Some days I just feel like listening to them and today, after quite a long time, it was one of those days. Do not ask me why. Anyway, there are two things that I know that I will be doing for sure as soon as I get a job and leave my student budget behind: buy a new laptop and hire a maid to clean up my apartment and iron shirts.

These week has been an interesting one. I have taken part in a focus group for the first time ever, I have been to the dentist, I have had a haircut, I have made it through to a second (and final) round of interviews, I have started working out again, have I got a disappointing and unexpected B in a course, I have tried some Colombian aguardiente for the first time, I have applied to a bunch of jobs both in the east and the west coast,…not too bad.

This week I have also spent a very long time thinking deeply about how difficult it is sometimes to stick with your gut and your heart and follow your passions. In terms of making decision I feel like I am following kind of an inverted evolution. One is supposed to do more reckless and bold moves when he is a teenager. But I feel like I have been doing pretty much that for the last two years. I do not feel like I did much of that in my late teens early twenties and I am definitely doing that in my late twenties and early thirties. Wise or immature?

I quit my job and left the easy and safe path that was in front of me a couple of years ago. I kicked banks and consulting firms in their butts to pursue a difficult non-traditional career in media or sports... Everything looked a little crazy at the time of making such decisions; now it looks like the most obvious and reasonable thing. And now I may face the decision of taking an (unreasonable?) 40% discount from the average salary of a top MBA program to do what I think I want. This is the very big decision. If I have the guts to eventually take it I think I will definitely close the circle of bold moves. Or maybe not, because looking at my recent trajectory anything may happen. These thoughts occupy my mind all the time. I have not come to a decision yet. But I feel like much thinking is not necessarily gonna help me decide. I guess that I will wake up one day and will say: “what the fuck, let’s do it!”….or maybe “no way, forget about it”.

But to close such a varied week, I am gonna finish right now to attend my first party ever at an art gallery… perfect closing for the week!
Later