Well, that's over, at least for the next month. I've come to a semi-decided conclusion about my future career path. I'm feeling really good about it (at least right now- hopefully I'll feel the same after a few weeks) and am very excited about the possibilities.
I'm going to be a regulatory economist.
This in essence means that I have two career options. I can work for the Competition Bureau to regulate industries that are taking advantage of market conditions to exercise market power. Or, I can work for a large company to help them find loopholes in the regulations so that they can keep exercising market power. Doesn't it sound exciting?
This all started last semester when I got interested in my Industrial Organization class, the one where we learned about conspiracies between firms to rip us off. I found it quite intriguing, so when my professor announced that he would be teaching a follow-up course next semester on Regulatory Economics, I pondered the possibilities. My first class was yesterday, and I'm already in love. We get to write a research paper on regulation in Alberta, choosing a specific industry- I'm pondering postage-stamp pricing in electrical transmission or the allocation of water rights. The Competition Bureau is coming in to the class in two weeks to hold a recruiting session, and the Department of Economics organizes a summer internship program that is only open to students who have completed this course series. But the best part of this class? There are only 7 students. I know this a regular occurrence for some of my friends who major in Byzantine Studies or take senior-level Russian classes, but I have never been in an undergraduate class smaller than about twenty people. I'm super excited and I think it'll be a great course.
3 comments:
I;m excited too.
Grannie
Woo!
Now I just need to figure out what I want to be when I grow up...
You already know? Or you have now figured out part of it? I'm still figuring out what I'll be when I grow up, it's an evolving sort of thing...
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