After a longer absence than expected, TheDude is back to relay his hectic life these past couple weeks. We will start with the school part: I just got finished with midterms last night and I could not be happier. The past couple weeks I have devoted myself to reading my textbooks, organizing my notes, and preparing for some seriously difficult exams. There were a number of days that I studied for 6 or 7 hours straight, and to be honest it was starting to wear on me. I was stressed, I was bored and annoyed, and I was anxious to get the exams over with. The drawback of my classes meeting at night is that the day of the exam, after I have done all of my studying and preparing, I have to wait the entire day to take the test. It is a very frustrating period of waiting. Anyways, the exams are now behind me and I find myself in the uncommon situation of having some time to relax and take a break from schoolwork. That doesn't mean that I do not have any work to do the rest of this week. I actually have to finish writing my 30-page tax policy paper that has dominated my life for the past month. But it is almost finished, and once I submit it the rest of the semester seems like it will be a walk in the proverbial park.
My life, for the past couple weeks, has also been filled with interviews. I graduate in a little over a month so I am furiously trying to find a position in the tax field that will start in January 2011. I have been on countless interviews, have sent a ton of follow-up emails, and have thankfully received a couple job offers so far. It is very gratifying to have something to show for all the hard work I have put in since last September when I started the MST program- I devoted myself entirely to taxes, to my classes, and to truly appreciating and loving the field of taxation and I have been fortunate enough to have offers that would allow me to start my career doing something I would enjoy. These interviews are interesting to me: they are really the first interviews that I have had where I knew I was "in it" for the long-term...when an interviewer asks me where I see myself in 5 years, I do not have to lie and make something up that sounds good. I truly see myself doing taxes and accounting (hopefully international tax accounting/planning), and it is something I am excited to talk about with these companies. I know what I am passionate about, I know what I areas I want to learn more and more about, and I know what direction I want to take my professional career. As much as these interviews exhaust me (4 hours of talking about myself gets to be a bit much) and utilize precious hours that could be spent on schoolwork, it is fun to talk with people who are in the industry I am going to soon find myself a part of. These opinions/experiences are incredibly helpful and I always come away with new things to think about and consider when I interview.
So I guess that sums up my life recently, and explains why I have been so busy. The semester is certainly winding down, and I cannot believe that I am almost done with my masters program. It seems like yesterday when I was introducing myself through this blog and explaining how I ended up at Suffolk. I guess time truly does fly when you are doing something you enjoy (yes I have enjoyed the MST program immensely). So I will keep the blogging world updated on my future interviews and my eventual job acceptance, and until then...TheDude Abides.
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