The summer post-GSB

This blog is the start of my summer journey.

Like many of us who just graduated from the 2-year long MBA program, I struggled with the decision what to do for the whole summer. Either sign up for another summer internship and get another great (or so I hope) experience before I start my full time job. Or just ask to start my full time job earlier (and yes, the big PLUS is so I can start seeing more inflow to my bank account after years of only deficit). Or I can make a big traveling plan to all corners of the world (like so many of my gsb friends did). Or just simply do nothing...

I sorta picked the last one. As I talked to so many friends and people who were in the same boat with me many years ago, the consistent advice I got was that "when is the next time you have such a long break for yourself?" "forget about work - you will have your whole life ahead to do work", or many other advices along the same line. Surely there are advices on the opposite side as well, but I only remember what I wanted to hear, and these advices definitely stick more with me (or with my lazy nature).

And here I am, in Houston, deciding to spend all my summer months here with my family. I know I know - there are no good reasons to be in this crazily hot weather (average is about 95 F degree, or equivalent of about 35-37 C degree), plus the very humid weather. Yet, my family is here, so are my amazing nephew and my niece.

I also decided to spend this entire summer to work on a non-profit start-up that I have been very determined to make it happen. Another blog I will explain more what I am trying to work on, but in short it's a non-profit that focuses at providing sponsorship for underserved Vietnamese students to go to college in Vietnam. There is probably not better time for me to work on this than now - and so I decided to work on it full time for the next 3 months before I embark on a very busy work schedule again in October.

Summer has been great - I hardly go out during the day given how hot it can get here. But I have great time enjoying myself - and you wont believe, but time does fly by much faster than I thought. I have anticipated a much more painful time of not knowing how to fill my 24 hours a day, but it has proven me wrong. Before I realize, the whole day has gone.