B School results are out. Looks like I'm heading to Ahmedabad for two years. Bye bye beer, butter chicken, and lazing around. Sigh.
Yeah, yeah, I know I shouldn't be sounding so weary already. It's an exciting opportunity and I'll get to meet like-minded professionals and network and all that business-y crap. I'm absolutely thrilled I got in. Really. But, I can't help but dread it, a little. Can't put my finger on the reason.
Maybe it's because this is hardly going to be like DU, where I studied only to save myself from flunking out. This is going to mean hitting the ground running and trying my best to be among the top half of the class at all times. If I want to "succeed", that is.
Which brings me to a more philosophical question. What is this success?
Does it mean earning a seven figure salary (or more)? Does it mean getting the best placement in your school? Does it mean launching your own start up and become one of those wildly controversial and successful (that word again) flip-flops-and-shorts wearing CEOs? Or does it mean having your own personal definition of success, the world's opinion be damned?
How long does the golden period last? How soon till I want to switch jobs? Will I be doing the same thing ten years, twenty years, thirty years later? If not, will I have "wasted" my management education?
Gah. Someone please stop this train.
Yeah, yeah, I know I shouldn't be sounding so weary already. It's an exciting opportunity and I'll get to meet like-minded professionals and network and all that business-y crap. I'm absolutely thrilled I got in. Really. But, I can't help but dread it, a little. Can't put my finger on the reason.
Maybe it's because this is hardly going to be like DU, where I studied only to save myself from flunking out. This is going to mean hitting the ground running and trying my best to be among the top half of the class at all times. If I want to "succeed", that is.
Which brings me to a more philosophical question. What is this success?
Does it mean earning a seven figure salary (or more)? Does it mean getting the best placement in your school? Does it mean launching your own start up and become one of those wildly controversial and successful (that word again) flip-flops-and-shorts wearing CEOs? Or does it mean having your own personal definition of success, the world's opinion be damned?
How long does the golden period last? How soon till I want to switch jobs? Will I be doing the same thing ten years, twenty years, thirty years later? If not, will I have "wasted" my management education?
Gah. Someone please stop this train.
