{"id":20397,"date":"2019-08-29T08:17:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T07:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/?p=20397"},"modified":"2020-01-17T14:01:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T13:01:13","slug":"working-student-diary-ernst-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/working-student-diary-ernst-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Student Diary: Ernst & Young"},"content":{"rendered":"

Entering the business world with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Sociology was challenging at first. Everyone threw their fancy lingo at me and at times, I felt completely clueless. However, the more I worked in the Innovation department and learned through books and my mentors, the more I grew and began to love my new career path.<\/p>\n

With this new found passion for facilitating and supporting highly respected and world renown scientists to develop an innovative idea into a marketable product or service, I chose to pursue my Master in Management at FS<\/a> to gain additional knowledge from top-ranked professors and peers, to develop additional skills I might not be able to on the job, and be stretched to grow outside my normal work environment.<\/p>\n

As a German expat growing up in Latin America and getting my Bachelor\u2019s degree in the USA, the opportunity to build a global network and exchange ideas and experiences with peers from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds is important for me, which is something Frankfurt School offers.<\/p>\n

My work-life balance: How I cope with the 3-day model<\/h2>\n

I am personally an early-bird and one to stick to routines. Regardless of what day it is, I wake up around 5:30 am and leave the house at 7 am. I live outside of Frankfurt, so I hop on the train and start my commute to work or school. I wisely use my long commute to read, finish homework, or just relax listening to music or podcasts. (Depending on our schedules, sometimes I carpool with my neighbor, who is also an FS student.)<\/p>\n

Monday through Wednesday, you can find me enjoying my job as a Working Student in the Innovation department at EY, applying what I\u2019ve learned in class the week before. I have different responsibilities and have been able to work on and gain experience on different projects. I work out of the Eschborn office (or home) and occasionally travel across the GSA region for trainings or events for one or two days (I usually choose Mondays-Wednesdays).<\/p>\n

Thursday through Saturday, I am officially (and strictly) out of office and attending class at FS. If something relevant to class came up at work at the beginning of the week, I am able to bring it up in a discussion, relate it to a case, and ask my professor for advice or a structured approach. When I learn something in class that I could apply in some way to my work at the moment or in the future, I make a note of it and apply it the following week or when I can. This also helps me solidify my learning (study smarter, not harder). Doing so, I not only have the knowledge about what to do, but why and how it works and can explain it to my colleagues.<\/p>\n

After work or school, usually around 5 pm, it varies. I catch up with friends or colleagues, hop back on the train to the gym to go boxing, or sometimes stay at FS to work on group projects.
\nOn Sundays, I spend time with family and friends, prepare myself for the week, lead the youth group at church, and finish up homework.<\/p>\n

So, when asked about working and studying<\/a> at the same time, I\u2019d say it\u2019s totally worth it! Setting goals, using a planner, and studying smart are key!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Entering the business world with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Sociology was challenging at first. Everyone threw their fancy lingo at me and at times, I felt completely clueless. However, the more I worked in the Innovation department and learned through books and my mentors, the more I grew and began to love my new career […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":767,"featured_media":21466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,55,53,39],"tags":[142,94,124,125,184,97,98,99,126,1327,187],"class_list":["post-20397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-services","category-mim","category-master","category-study","tag-consulting","tag-diversity","tag-frankfurt","tag-frankfurt-am-main","tag-industry","tag-international","tag-job","tag-jobs","tag-management","tag-msc","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20397"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21468,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20397\/revisions\/21468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}