3.09.2007

Lil' Brudder, can you give me some sound financial advice?

Okay, so I've got two huge options, with one of them having a couple of sub-options.
  • Move to Atlanta for 6 months to a year, OR
  • Stay in Utah and either:
    • Start working in the Sales department ASAP
    • Stick around in High Tech until "the end" or until another offer comes along
Moving to Atlanta is really appealing, for several reasons:
1) I would be spending a year in a brand new town all by myself (well, with my sister) for the first time in my life.
2) Having work isn't an issue -- that's the whole reason I'd move out there, to move where my current job is moving.
3) I'd be living in close proximity to basically everything under the sun you could think of, there would never be a shortage of this thing called "having a life".
4) I'd be closer to my cousins (in North and South Carolina), closer to Maryland, and close to Florida!
5) It would just overall be incredibly fun and potentially one of those life experiences that most people get when they go off to college. I never had that phase, really, since going to college was basically just like going home. Yeah, I missed Maryland, but it wasn't like being in this new place with new people and a totally different culture than anything I've known.

Staying here would allow me to get through another couple of semesters and go to Paris for study abroad in Fall 2008. Staying here would be the sensible thing to do. Finish school. It's already going to take me an extra year and a half to graduate. It's not risky to stay here, just finish school and find a guy and settle down and plant some roots.


And honestly, I really can't figure out which one I want to do more. Go to Atlanta and put the 2nd option off for a year or finish school as fast as humanly possible?


What should I do?? What would YOU do?