Today is five years to the day that I started work at Goldman. I look back, and it’s been an incredibly bumpy ride. Not so much professionally, but my personal life has taken so many twists and turns that at times, even I’ve had trouble keeping up!
I remember my first day like it was yesterday. I was an eager 22 year old who thought they had the whole world in front of them. I thought I had it all figured out. I was engaged, I had the job of my dreams and they had agreed to transfer me to New York. That was it. I knew exactly how my life would pan out, and I had already envisioned my white picket fence house in Long Island with green eyed husband and two kids.
A lot has changed since then. My naivety, although still there, is diminishing. I don’t have it all figured out, and I’ve learnt that even if I think I may, I still won’t have it all figured out. But I’m not worried, in fact I’m learning to accept that I don’t need to know how my life will end up. I’m happily enjoying the highs, and becoming stronger through the lows.
Where will I be in five years? Who knows. I don’t, and that doesn’t bother me one bit.
