Well, that is it folks! I have officially completed the requirements to earn an MBA. All that remains is the conferring of the actual degree! As always, this blog too starts with a caution - this is also going to rant based.
August 2010 - April 2013. Approximately three years. What did I learn? Well, I learnt a lot. I have new perspective on businesses, strategic decisions etc. Let me be honest, when I started my MBA there were friends who said "Oh this program sucks. People don't get jobs. What a waste of my money". I countered it by saying, "My takeaway is the knowledge I am gaining. Yes I do want a job at the end of the program but I won't be dissing the program if I don't get one". What I was trying to say is I am learning something everyday and that is all I need. But as the years rolled by and I lost my job at AMD, my whole perspective changed. Now I wanted A job, in the business side of things. Unfortunately, I didn't get one and still haven't.
Let's change gears a little here. Am I glad my MBA is done? I am not sure. I sure don't feel euphoric that I have completed my MBA. I don't feel proud and have this sense of achievement that I have earned my MBA. If the above leads to happiness that I have finished my MBA, then no, I am not happy. Any discerning reader would by troubled enough by this sentiment of mine to ask me "Are you alright? Do you need to be checked in at the mental institution?". Fret not dear reader. Let me tell you why I feel this way. I am overwhelmed by all this travelling I have done in the past 3 months. I am tired. I am not my usual enthusiastic self (at least I think I am an enthu fellow). I feel weighed down by my own high expectations. Again the root-cause of this feeling stems from the fact that........ let me not mention it again.
The thing is, if it is something I care about so much, I haven't done enough justice in terms of effort to finding one. With all the travelling done in the last 3 months, I hardly found time to apply. I have to restart my application process now. The ones that seem promising don't seem promising anymore because the process takes such a long time!
Finally, I understood something. When I was working for AMD and I took a day off, I would miss work. Seriously! Now I when I take a day off, I enjoy it, cherish it so much that I don't want to go to work the next day or after the weekend. I take it this is a sign of me enjoying my work at AMD not enjoying it here. I know what I have to do now. Today is the first day of the rest of my life!
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Congrats....
Treat enga..for today's news?
Sri, I think each degree can be denigrated like that. It does not matter if we use a very small percentage of what we learnt at work. What matters is that it opens doors.
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