Drum Magazine Issue 4 | Page 19

Drum: ENTERPRISE

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The Plan was
to graduate college, work for a year,
get a professional degree, and ascend to World
Dominance; writes Oxford and Yale graduate Taiye Coker Wosornu.
Never mind that we never defined what World Dominance entailed.
Rule the world (or save it) was a perfect answer for all who asked:
What do you want to do after you graduate?
he question has become more of an
accusation than an enquiry of late. For, in a
startling, unsettling turn of events, we don’t
have any plans. Somewhere bet-ween our first day at
college and our last corporate interview things fell
apart. The goals we finished high school with (First
Lady-President! Next Michael Jordan! Find cancer’s
cure!) are fading away. In their absence we must
decide what we truly want to do – and are
discovering that we don’t (that we never did?) know.

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The I-bank/Law school/Med school Model of Success
presents three options:

1) To make lots of money now.
2) To go to professional school now and make lots
of money later.
3) To make lots of money now then go to school
and make even more money sooner.

In desperation almost, we’ve begun to subscribe to
this Triumvirate Version of success. We artists and
actors have begun to think that maybe banking is not
so bad. Consulting has become a seductive lesser of
evils, second only to the panacea that is Law School.