Job or Trip

Shortly following my graduation my friends and I decided to go to Myrtle Beach as our long awaited senior trip. Obviously I was excited for this last chance to travel with all of my high school friends for a week. However, two weeks before we were planning to leave I received a summer job offer that would be a recurring opportunity for every summer I’m in college. This was an offer I could not pass up. Unfortunately if I wanted to accept this job I would have to interview for the job and go to the job training class that was held only during the week of our trip. I was torn between the once in a lifetime senior trip or a whole summer’s salary worth thousands of dollars a year. Eventually I choose to interview and go to the job training class because it would have been crazy to pass up that kind of opportunity. I was still disappointed that I missed out especially after hearing the tales my friends wove when they came back to town, but after taking Econ 200 I finally am able to rationalize my decision with proven economic theories. If I had decided to forgo the summer job and go on the senior trip my opportunity cost would have been thousands of dollars for not only this summer but also thousands of dollars the next few summers. Knowing this now I am now content with the hard decision I made at the beginning of the summer.