My brother’s back from Afghanistan. Here’s an email I wrote:
My brother, Edward, was deployed a year ago this month to Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan. Since then, he’s been working with his Engineering company, leading several missions that ranged from a few hours to a few days, as the Executive Officer (XO) as well as acting Commanding Officer (CO) of his unit. He ate portable Military Ready to Eat meals for Thanksgiving, celebrating his 25th birthday and Christmas and New Year’s without his family, having left behind friends in Germany, Korea and the United States, all countries he has served in with the United States Army. He’s back safe and sound now to Germany where his unit deployed from, and I couldn’t be more thankful. However, he’s due to leave for Iraq a few months from now.
But throughout it all, he’s received recognition. He’s made Captain (2 promotions) in January 06, within 3.5 years of his service as an officer in the Army. He also earned the Bronze Star (for Service).
So I got a better idea of what I’ll be doing for the summer:
IBM (White Plains, New York)
Global Financial Planning – Sales and Distribution
-Integrated accounts vs aligned accounts analysis
-Revenue targets & modeling
If I get and accept a full time offer, I’d be doing rotational program where I spend 1.5 years in each of the following:
-Planning
-Pricing
-Business development OR auditing
After 4.5 years of that I would become a manager, on track to become an executive between the age of 32-37. I just hope I end up liking this Finance thing, because it all sounds fancy and too good to be true, but I still have no idea what kind of work I’d be doing.