It feels like she has made the first genuine choice about her life. Most people seldom, if ever, make a genuine choice, but follow the obvious path in front of them. In this case, top of class, great college, fantastic job then career and so forth.<p>This site is rightly focussed around people who have made or are thinking about making genuine choices, founding or being part of a start-up.<p>It took me until I was 29 to make my first real choice, and then, and ever since then, I've gone about in the same way.<p>The key is to create real options that are all desirable, and to make a real choice that is for yourself, your family, and for the societal right reasons, not (just) for others' expectations.<p>So what I did, and advise people to do, is to prioritise three completely different options areas, such as travel, starting a company and going corporate. Next, work on each of them as hard as you can to make them as compelling as possible.<p>If you've done a great job, then the three options will be equally good, yet very different, and the choice will be incredibly hard. At this stage it's about refining your criteria and choosing the one that opens the most doors and leaves the least closed.<p>Set a date to decide by, maximize the value of each option by pushing hard, and then pick one.<p>And I recommend always having a plan B and C, no matter what you are doing.