Ladies and Gentlemen, at the precipice of your graduate degree …
Breathe …. Let the smell of coffee sink in ….
Now that you are transitioning from Academia to the work force there are certain basic principles that need to be internalized:
1) The 80-20 rule is now a constant part of your life, get used to it!You will spend 80% of your time at work pursuing things designed to reduce your productivity by 20%
2) Let there be no illusions around this, the analysis that you are in the process of conducting is no more/no less relevant than the analysis you slaved on a week ago and will be no different from the one you shall struggle with a week from now.
3) Try to have a social life. Make contact with the opposite sex. This is the only means of forgetting how meaningless your life really is.
4) Accept the inevitability of the fact that free food is the only incentive that will inspire spontaneity within your department. Do not attempt to deliberate upon this. Eat, drink and be merry.
5) Whenever you feel like a miniscule cog in a very large wheel, know that the feeling, while absolutely true, shall pass!
6) Finally, learn to deal with the fact that data that is most important to your model has been speculated upon, deliberated and fictionalized. Use the most current analytical framework to make your recommendations look well grounded!
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