I work for an international organisation

A lot of journos come from privilege (not that that's particularly different from any other professional career). That's a tough gig but I gotta lot of respect for you man, keep fighting the good fight

that could mean literally anything but ok lol

UN

A lot of these people with big houses and new cars are balls deep in debt

Heard this is a financial death sentence. Fresh outta college (debt), new car (debt), new house (debt), big wedding (debt), children (debt).

facts

Could never live comfortably with all that debt

That must be the case because I feel like I’m no where near home ownership or in position to spend tens of thousands on anything within the next 5 years.

Part of adult life is realizing that there will never be a point where you’ll be satisfied with or not have anxiety about how your resume looks or what’s in it. I get sick to my stomach looking at mine, like someone’s gonna look at it and think I’m a dumbass.

No better feeling in the world then fumbling two potential life changing bags

Imma be broke forever

ive had a business degree for a year and i havent done s*** yet

How’d you get into journalism bro?

I’ve always been into media, so I knew early on that I wanted to doing something in that field.

Just worked at it constantly. I’m was always reading and always writing just building that skill until it became easy. Also learned about cameras and microphones and basically just tried to excel at all sides of the media business, so no one could ever say I had any weaknesses. I did it for free for years and then eventually people took notice and wanted to pay me for it.

Just got confirmation I got my degree!!!!!!! Waiting on my results but still!!!!!! I literally hated studying for this the past 3 years and just to have it done and out the way I’m so grateful

Congrats fam!

You went to an Ivy League but didn’t go into Bulge Bracket Finance or Big 3 Consulting?

Literally the only reason to go to an Ivy League

the only reason I went to an Ivy League is because they gave me a full ride scholarship. Otherwise, I wouldn't have gone to an Ivy League cause f*** this culture of elitism and prestige. My top choice was Oberlin

You got a full ride to Ivy League

You could have been working at Goldman making 185K all in first year out of college. You work there for a couple years and then go work in private equity making double that for less hours

You f***ed up

It ain’t about the money after all. So long I’m making 3000 euros a month I’m fine. My long term plan has always been to go back to uni for my PhD and then work as a professor/researcher.

Agree w the guy about going to goldman im transferring into a sort of lower lowerbtier ivy (mcgill) but literally just bcus im not sure about law school yet and might want the option for consulting

UN seems really cool, been a dream field of mine. How did you leverage that? What languages do you speak?

I can’t be selling out for money. Investment and consulting firms are parts of a system I’m all the way opposed to. My interests are in the geopolitics and economies of emerging technologies (Blockchains, IoT, AI... etc) as they relate to urban/rural design and migration (human geography). Can’t be going to Wall Street with that

I got into the UN after working for a couple of NGOs in London. My master’s was in development and migration, so that helped. I work on social policies of emerging technologies (mainstreaming open source solutions in the design of smart cities, for example). I speak three languages and a half basically: English, Arabic, Farsi and German. I’m picking up French too.

I feel you don’t get me wrong im not a soulless money chasing w**** but i kind of need a high paying job cus my family will depend on me and my siblings. My parents are immigrants and they poured all their savings and salaries into school for us so the unspoken agreement has always been once were out we’ll support them and our family back home in africa as well. Even now my mom is still working a s***ty low paying job so me getting a relatively high paying job is like my Only option yk?

I’m a deeply political person (former polisci major) and hv my own personal morals and honestly been kind of worries how my social democratic left wing beliefs will reconcile with the corporate arena ill enter after I graduate in 4 years but it is what is. My hope is to only do that for a couple years and find some kind of public sector or government/politics role

But UN sounds like a dream. I speak english and french but idek how one would go around finding an internship like that? You mentioned you have a masters so it seems a grad degree is a given like I thought. My plan B (and preferred plan tbh) has been going to law school at a place like nyu and studying international/human rights law hopefully if i do go that route i can leverage it but idk because thts an extra 3 yrs of me not earning money

How many doctors/med students in here?

abolish multi-round interviews