Winding Down

Well, it’s the time of year when Co-op makes or breaks students’ dreams and, well, it’s starting to wind down for me. I applied to a conservative 15 jobs (out of a possible 50 applications), so I was either really stupid or really selective. Or some combination of the two.

Many of the jobs were in Waterloo; I applied to places like RIM and Wilfred Laurier. The rest – almost half of them – were in the United States. And they were to some pretty big companies: TD, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, NVIDIA.

To my dismay, I found that there were a LOT of applications to the jobs in the States; most of them had well over a hundred each. But, the two interviews that I presently have are for those jobs: one for TD in Chicago, and another for Morgan Stanley in New York. Most of the others are pending.

Much more to my dismay, I found that almost all of the rejections came from Waterloo jobs. And the other opportunities are winding down, too; I only have 4 pending RIM applications, and 1 from Laurier. That’s it. So 5 more shots at staying in Waterloo (unless I opt to go into the continuous phase, which pretty much means continuous stress).

Most people would be really excited to get interviews for jobs in the US. I can totally understand why, too: big money, big experience, big cities, big names. But I’m pretty bleh to all of that. I’m not in it for the money (per se… I do need some cashola in my account, though), I already have big experience, I don’t like big cities, and I already have big names.

There’s more. I love Waterloo. I don’t have many reasons to move; a lot of my friends are here, others are (or will be) close by, the Embassy is here, and my rent contract is here (along with all of the crap that I own and don’t want to move).

Oh I have some tough choices to make… what am I to do??

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