SINGAPORE - What should I do?
On a day-to-day basis, that question is fairly easy to answer. Most probably, I shall cook, do the laundry, buy some stuff from the grocery, read, look for recipes, plan the menu, play games, watch TV for a short time, eat, think about food, check Facebook, chat, try to read for my dissertation, watch Korean drama, and the list goes on.
Looking ahead, I can't find a definitive answer. For my dissertation, what should I really write about? In terms of my career, should I pursue a purely academic track? Or, should I explore the corporate world?
In the corporate world, should I further explore fields or jobs I haven't really thought about when I entered graduate school two years ago? Or, should I stick to jobs that allow me to use the things I've learned over the past couple of years or so (provided they exist; I am hopeful that they exist)?
While I am not yet looking for work (and channeling my energy on *trying* to be a good housewife), I want to be productive with my time, learn something new, reinforce what I've already learned before, and gain new knowledge. With limited resources and time, however, I have to focus on just a thing (or topic or field) or two. What's that thing? I do not know.
I want that thing to be something useful to the track (purely academe, purely corporate, or corporate that also uses my graduate school learning). I haven't decided, and could not decide -- upon starting to write this blog entry. Reading and writing that fourth paragraph, I will hope and pray that there exists a work in the corporate world that involves using the stuff I learned and loved from graduate school (not macroeconomics, please). :)
