Have several months off before I start

As the title suggests, I received a FT offer for an IB analyst position that starts at the beginning of the summer. I’m finishing a semester early, so I have nothing to do from December to June. I have $3600 remaining from SA, what do I do with my time off?

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Was hoping to travel for about a month or two before starting, but idk how likely that will be. Can still road trip with friends or something. If you're starting FT in IB, relax a little bit during your time off. I struggled with wanting to always be doing something to get to the next step as well, but trying to appreciate senior year and the break between recruiting and working before getting back into it. 

 
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This is the perfect moment to start some habits that will benefit you the rest of your life:

- Go for an early monging run every day (6:00-6:45AM): good habit once you start working.
- Then spend 2 hours every morning on 1 or 2 interesting online courses (Accounting? Excel? Phyton?) - this will not become a habit, but is useful and gives some purpose to these months.
- Spend the afternoon with friends (outside to minimise COVID risk), you will miss that when you start working (go for a walk, sports, etc).
- Start with a healthy diet NOW. Once you work, it only becomes worse. Not sure how delivery-budgets and stuff work now with WFH, but I have a couple of friends that make salads on Sunday that they eat for lunch untill Wednesday or so.
- In the evening: read 2 novels + 2 books that are relevant for work: gives you something to talk about coming years with collegues/clients/etc.

Furthermore: delete facebook, instagramm, snapchat, netflix and all that other crap. You will not have time for it anyways in 3 months and IF you would have time for it, rather spend it on the things mentioned above. Realy: get it out of your system NOW.

 

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