Is it crazy to turn down a full time IB offer after SA to stay longer in school (eg. doing Honours)
Hey guys, like the topic suggests, how many of you would think that its crazy to turn down a full time IB offer after SA to stay longer in school (eg. doing Honours).
The reason I'm asking this is because I've been thinking, actually one extra year in school might not be that bad considering you might be able to go on different programmes with that additional year, eg. Overseas internships in Silicon Valley (my school offers one)
What do you guys think?
turning down guaranteed employment in exchange for racking up more debt and non-guaranteed employment sounds like a fucking excellent idea bro
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you mean...
I'd take the IB offer and run if I were you, but different strokes for different folks. Unless you really think the additional year of school for your exchange or program experience would help you in the long term, locking down a job which helps pay the debt seems more prudent.
Why would you even think of that? Getting into honours does not mean you will do well; seize that job while it lasts.
idiot
If you have the job, at least you'll have the possibility of going back to school. If you stay in school, there isn't an absolute certainty that you will get a job. Besides, school sucks
Doubt you'd get any positive feedback on here. I'm going assume it is IB that you want; in which case it's rather crazy to turn it down for spending another year in school. This is one of those typical career vs. 'what you want' decisions. So yeah, only you will know the right answer. Are you going to cry yourself to sleep in a year's time if you don't have an IB offer? Or will you be bitching about how you never got to work in the Valley as you change slide title fonts at 1 am?
you don't have an FT offer, and you are not in the running for honours. you have been hitting the opium pipe in chinatown and it's time to come home, son.
Can you not just get your start date changed to allow for more school? I would at least ask and let them know you're considering it. It's just an idea, maybe someone else should weigh in on it before you fire off any calls or E-mails.
The point of college is to get a good job. If you already have said good job and you decide to stay in college... the answer is no, the fuck is wrong with you?
Take that job before you shoot yourself in the head, down the road.
Stop talking this retard into it. Why would you want people like this working in your industry anyway? Let him do what he wants to do.
Lol half the people in this industry are sheep retards
I'm going to against the grain here and suggest that you find a way to do both. Doing an overseas internship in the Valley could be an incredible experience. Who knows, maybe you'll discover something besides IB that you are truly passionate about. Perhaps you could ask to defer your start date, explaining that you want to obtain honors and participate in some overseas programs.
When I was a junior, I was struggling with participating full-on in internship recruiting vs. studying abroad. A quote I read on here from our very own Midas Mulligan Magoo convinced me to do the latter: "IB will always be there. Seeing the world while you're still young will not."
Now, I'm not advocating for one path or the other. It's your life and it would be presumptuous for me to believe that I know what's best for you. However, I just wanted to say your dilemma here is certainly colored with gray and is not as black and white as the previous responses may suggest.
In this economy I would recommend taking the job just because it is secured. After a year or two you can reevaluate your options.
retard.
If it makes any difference to your decision I turned down a FT BB offer to get a master's at Oxford.
My logic was- the industry will always be there, but some chances at school are once in a lifetime. It may sound silly to some but in the long run I didnt want to be the guy who in ten years was regretting not going to Oxford. It also hasnt hurt me a bit in recruiting- had plenty of SA offers
do whatever fuck you want to do.
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