Posts Tagged ‘dreams’

The idea of heading to Africa came to me at the beginning of 2009.  But now that I have an official placement with Kiva, $400 of vaccines flowing through my veins, and my resignation letter handed in, all the feelings that I have accumulated along this process have intensified. Where I was once hesitant, I am now scared. Where I was once excited, I am now ecstatic. And where I was once pleased I took the initiative, I am now proud I am following through. 

This got me thinking about accomplishments and whether they can be defined not only by the attainment of a goal, but by the dismissal of one as well.  Instead of constructing dreams and hopes, can we also take pride in deconstructing paradigms? (more…)

F had always belittled her own career as an IBanker, saying she “chose the easiest path laid in front of her”. I used to despise the comment because I took her disdain to be an indirect insult on my own career choice. I picked a similar path and hate to think that it was merely convenience that led me to it. But recently I have been made to re-evaluate whether it is truly harder to walk down Wall St. or to create a path of your own?

I still believe that getting on to Wall St. is difficult, requiring many essential traits and a healthy dose of luck. However, I have barely taken a step down the road of entrepreneurship, and I have already been overwhelmed with many headache inducing questions:

How can we break in to the Chinese market and create a barrier of entry? Who has the experience to create a prototype? What is the best method of conducting research that can be FDA approved?

Brainstorming for a good idea is hard, executing it into a successful business is much harder. Unlike working for a large firm, there are no old pitch books to copy off of, no analysts to pile the grunt work on and no database to find answer from.

I am really starting to respect fellow classmates who dared to make their own path, people in the past I would have shrugged off as being unfit to make it on Wall St.