Graduating without a plan

[Riverman]

So I have 2 months left before I graduate from Princeton. Ive got about a 3.2 as a varsity athlete and my major is politics.

Problem is that I have no idea what to do with myself next year. Any suggestions? Salary is a consideration but not a major one.

[mason55]

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So I have 2 months left before I graduate from Princeton. Ive got about a 3.2 as a varsity athlete and my major is politics.

Problem is that I have no idea what to do with myself next year. Any suggestions? Salary is a consideration but not a major one.

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Enlist.

[Jazza]

poker,

take a shot, what's the worst that could happen?

[gamblore99]

i have no advice, but congratulations. what sport did you play?

[istewart]

Riverman = the Princeton kid on the cover of the Times a few weeks back.

[Riverman]

NY Times man is not be but is in fact my best friend. I wish I had as much money as him because then I wouldnt be at all worried about what to do. To answer one poster's question, I played golf here.

Say I want to look into getting a finance job- what do I do and who do I talk to? How about working at a law firm? My parents would disown me if I played poker.

[jstnrgrs]

I graduated 3 years ago without a plan. Since then, I have been working a dead end job and I have lost touch with all my friends. I recomend you think of something, and when you do tell me what it is.

[Paluka]

When I graduated I had zero plan. I went from Ivy Leaguer to bum in a day. It worked out fine for me. I suggest grad school with poker on the side.

[mason55]

No one is taking my suggestion to enlist seriously. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[istewart]

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No one is taking my suggestion to enlist seriously. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

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-EV.

[mmbt0ne]

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-EV.

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Definitely. Go to Officer's School.

[Leo99]

law school or Wall street.

[zagosh]

For now, get a job flippin burgers at your local mick dik's. Fear not. In a few short years you should have enough $ to buy in to the 2045 W.S.O.P and cash out with a cool $100,000,000,000.00

[Riverman]

How much work is it to do well. I am not really too motivated academically although I have kind of enjoyed a few constitutional law classes.

[Leo99]

Take the LSAT after you take a prep course. The first year of law school is rough but the last two are easier. That's what all the lawyers I know tell me. I wish I went to law school.

[jon593]

gay porn sounds like a good carrer for ya to use that princeton education on

[CardSharpCook]

Find a way to do more schooling. But make sure someone else pays for it. In fact, see if you can stay in school for the next 10 years or so. You don't want to face the world outside. Remember, it is not -EV if you're not paying for it.

CSC

[CardSharpCook]

Oh, I just saw, you are a poliSci major like me. May I suggest the exciting world of food? It is how I put my PoliSci degree to good use.

[scrub]

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So I have 2 months left before I graduate from Princeton. Ive got about a 3.2 as a varsity athlete and my major is politics.

Problem is that I have no idea what to do with myself next year. Any suggestions? Salary is a consideration but not a major one.

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I suggest an extended period of job hunting in an area with pleasant weather.

scrub

[CardSharpCook]

This thread deserves a four-letter word M-A-U-I!!! Seriously, I lived out there for half a year, unbelievable. I may have to go back. Working in a restuarant I can tell you that Maui is full of just out of college girls who don't know what to do with their lives. And they are hot too (they have to be, because they know that they will be semi-nude all the time - incidently, another plus). Seriously though. Take some time off, go live on Maui for a year, get a job an a restaurant, and figure out what to do with yourself.

CSC

[manpower]

Get a bunch of friends together and all go live in an exotic location: I'm graduating in may and in the fall a small group of us are moving to new zealand for a year or so.

[jakethebake]

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Ive got about a 3.2 as a varsity athlete and my major is politics.

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Say I want to look into getting a finance job- what do I do and who do I talk to?

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Nothing like waiting until the last minute and then thinking you'll "look into" something you're not qualified for. Wtf is wrong with people?

[FoxwoodsFiend]

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Say I want to look into getting a finance job- what do I do and who do I talk to? How about working at a law firm? My parents would disown me if I played poker.

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I guarantee you Princeton has a career services office you can go to and ask these questions. There are places you can go to ask these questions, and 2+2 isn't quite as good at getting your foot in the door with a law firm or I-bank as Princeton is.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

Why is it that there are so many helpless fools in OOT?

[pshreck]

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Ive got about a 3.2 as a varsity athlete and my major is politics.

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Say I want to look into getting a finance job- what do I do and who do I talk to?

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Nothing like waiting until the last minute and then thinking you'll "look into" something you're not qualified for. Wtf is wrong with people?

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A Princeton grad with any major is more qualified than most finance majors for a finance position, and Im sure he could apply and get one. School name goes a long way.

[scrub]

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Why is it that there are so many helpless fools in OOT?

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Do you think there's a chance that Dave didn't post this thinking that it was the best way to find a job?

scrub

[zaxx19]

A Princeton grad with any major is more qualified than most finance majors for a finance position...

Bc he knows people who will hire him based on his being friends with their children..../????

In no other way is a VERY MEDIOCRE Ivey league grad with degree in an unrealted field that isnt remotely mathematical qualified to work in finance.

BTW is Princeton is like Harvard a 3.2 is pretty darn low.

The Ivey league is rife with grade inflation these days.

[Dead]

I don't think you could manage even a 1.5 at Harvard/Princeton, from reading your posts, so maybe you should just stop.

[edtost]

getting less than a 2-2.5 or so really requires effort.

[scalf]

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if ya fail to plan:

you are planning to fail..

gl

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[Zeno]

Sell almost everything you have, store the rest at the folks home or elsewhere, take all your money and go to New Zealand. Once there, do whatever you can for a while and then go to Australia, do whatever you can for a while, and then go someplace in Asia. You will either live great or die a fool - but that is much better, in my opinion, than what happens to the majority of people that spend their lives in grinding mediocrity that leads to nothing but regret and might-have-beens.

-Zeno

[Leo99]

I'm wallowing away in my grinding mediocre life. Thanks for pointing that out for me.

[turnipmonster]

my suggestion is not to sweat it too much, and to take your time figuring out what you want to do. play some cards, move someplace interesting, etc. also, try not to worry about what your parents think.