What's Next?

I guess I just feel like I need to get this off my chest so here goes:

I feel like I keep having to sacrifice happiness for financial decisions. I chose my college because it was close to home and the least expensive. I continue to live at home and give up a lot of social aspects of school to save money. I guess part of the reason I've worked towards finance is to get out of my hometown and now it seems like that has been taken away.

The last 2 summers I was planning to live in NYC and landed internships to do just that. Now the bank I'm with has announced we'll be virtual all summer and I can't help but feel like I'm missing out on a crucial social part of my life.

I know I can't be the only one that feels this way but it really sucks and I don't know how to break this trend.

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Just do the best you can with what is given to you. You’ll get to NYC eventually. NYC is the greatest city in the world.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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