Twenteen

20 isn't old

But somehow it feels like the

End of innocence.

Kind of what I was thinking while attending all the company talks held in Engg this past week. I needn't worry about jobs for at least another year, but I couldn't help but be swept away by the Jobfair fever, and not just because of the free food. :P So I'm dealing with this the usual way I deal with everything else: eating making lists.

How to be THE Company This Girl Will Devote Her Productive, Working Adult Years to [v. tentative, off-the-top of her warped head]:

1. Have a name with a nice ring to it. Something easy to pronounce [eg. not ridiculously long], or at least with a catchy acronym. Say, HP. ;)

2. Hold an interesting, thought-provoking company talk. This means no annoying hosts who makes jokes that they and they alone think are funny.

3. ...Although I am willing to overlook these unentertaining individuals if the new recruits who "share their experiences within the company" radiate enthusiasm, passion and happiness with the career path they've made. For me, it's mainly the enthusiasm and feeling that they like, no, LOVE what they do. That I too, in the future, could be that same bright-eyed new recruit, just loving learning about drilling engineering, making music videos, peeling bananas, and all that other fun stuff new recruits do.

4. NOT have a garbage-y past blip on the radar, or an unreadable, endearing frustrating woodland creature constantly flitting about the recruitment booth. Contrary to what a certain person may think, they aren't criteria for wanting to work in a company. Seriously.

5. Not be a hardcore, delta point-computing LL extraction-undertaking [haven't gotten too far in my majors, I know] sort of ChE company. I don't think I can take it, and I just know I'd end up at the best indifferent and at the worst totally unhappy with what I'm doing.

6. Be a company with HEART [obviously not actual beating heart, but more like the Captain Planet power]. An environmental company would be a good option, but a multinational one would be great, too, as long as I get to work where I won't lose my soul, or be just another denizen of the corporate world. I want to do something more than to add to the entropy of the universe and make some riiich company be even richer.

Hmm.

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It seems fitting to end this post the same way I started it, so...

If I don't see you,

There's karaoke with friends

I'll sing Lady in Red.