Business school teaches you a lot about the way things work – yourself included.  While I used to consider myself to have a fairly “Type A” personality, I’ve learned that must not be entirely true, for I am constantly sliding into home plate at the very last second possible, so to speak.  This tendency is at least partially attributable to the fact that I have stretched myself quite thin here at McCombs – there’s just so much exciting, engaging, worthwhile, once-in-a-lifetime stuff happening here all the time.  I still haven’t quite learned how to say, “no” – nor am I sure that I really want to!

It comes of little surprise then that with only one week of classes remaining in the semester, I just wrapped up my summer internship search.  I’ll be going to work for WhaleShark Media, a late stage startup based here in Austin.  This opportunity will allow me to gain experience with marketing on behalf of a web-based platform, an objective I formed for myself through participation in the activities referenced above that keep me so very busy.  It will also give me the chance to see what it’s like to work on the opposite end of the spectrum from the 40,000 employee, hierarchical, publicly traded corporate giant that I was with prior to school: there are just over one hundred workers at WhaleShark.  So while I’m sure it would’ve been nice to have established the details of my summer plans months ago, for me the search process was worth every minute that it took.  I am extremely excited for the experience that lies ahead, I am proud of achieving the objective I had set out for myself, and it all came together just in time…

Soaking up the conclusion of my Just-In-Time job search in Texas Hill Country