The Rat Race

Was chatting to a friend of mine that I haven't talked to for ages (not properly since 1st year accounting 1A...those were the days...not) last night. He's graduated and working now and was telling me about his work experiences, which led me to conclude that I so don't want to be come part of the rat race. It seems like a rat race is all working in a large firm amounts to. =p

I don't want to work in a job that I don't like. I don't want to work somewhere just because of the prestige of working in a bif firm. I don't want to be like the millions of other people trying to climb the corporate ladder, struggling to get more than what they currently have.

Do you think I'm being idealistic?? Too idealistic??

If I have to make a living (as opposed to sponging a living off others, hehe), I hope that it's something that I enjoy and get a kick out of. I hope it's something that I find satisfying in itself (as opposed to satisfying because I'm earning lots of money, or because I have a nice title). I hope it's something where I can be creative.

All this rat race thinking has been heightened because clerkship applications are due in soon-ish (I don't know WHAT I'm gonna do since I'll be away for most of the application period =p). I don't even really want to do corporate law, but I'll be applying because
# No one else is offering defined career path options
# No one else is offering me a graduate job
# I might as well...nothing to lose I suppose

I don't think any of those reasons is going to cut it in an application/interview. I'm going to have to cook up some more palatable reasons.

Argh.
I don't think they'll want me.
But then again, I don't think I want them!! =p

Off to class!