Be Street Smart: Kickass MBA



“In order to get a kickass job, you need to have a kickass work experience which you can have with a kickass job that you’ll be offered only for the kickass experience, which you can get with the…”

 

Aye Caramba

Well, you get the point! That’s one helluva Catch-22!

 

Welcome to the real world, my friend! Welcome to hell!

 

On the verge of wrapping up four successful years of undergraduate studies at one of the top business schools with flying colors, I’ve learnt nothing useful other than a couple of or three extraordinarily useful and behavioral topics. Yet my intellectual teacup has completely been filled to the brim with the gluts that need to be done away with before I can learn and discover anything new and practical that actually matters. Seems like, in the hindsight, I’ve laid out the four most precious and impressive years of my life learning the theories and stuffs that I’ll have to spend a decade or the entire lifetime unlearning and burying them.

 

 

How naïve was I? I’m sure you have no different story to share, either!

 

And even before convalescing from the Bachelor’s (BBA) degree hangover and taking time in the real world to bask in that evanescent freedom of the lifetime for a while, most of us are cannon-balling along to sign up for the next Hangover MBA marathon as if the world is coming to an end tomorrow, dreading the notion of being left behind in the race.

 

That’s insane. You deserve a break!

 

Biz Schools are awesome. I won’t deny that. I went to one of them like many of you guys. In fact, Biz Schools are so attractive that we’re easily enticed to them, like a moth to a flame. It lures us into the pleasant fantasy of a perpetually prosperous and comfortable life—the dream that a couple of years (or a double couple for Undergrad) at the Biz School and University and a happy-hour networking and case studies and year-end internships will get you the corporate recruiters shamelessly throwing handsomely paying prestigious executive jobs in your pockets. Plus you get a couple of years off from having to live in the real world. Wow! Who could afford to turn a blind eye to such an offer?

 

I couldn’t. I’m going to get my eyes checked, just in case!

 

Unfortunately, there’s a fine line between daydream and reality! (No, wait…! That’s one heck of a big-black-bold line in between.)

 

The prime issue is not whether going to university is a positive experience; it’s whether or not the experience is worth the cost. University is great in itself. But instead of spending huge sums of your (or your parents’) hard-earned money to learn marginally useful information that could be acquired for a few hundred bucks from a local bookstore or ubiquitous Google, you can best utilize your time and resources learning things that actually count in practical life. Talking about Google, Americans didn’t just develop the holy internet to make it easy for you to search some celebrities’ leaked nude photos online.

 

It’s about time you got one Kickass Street-smart MBA! Jim Rohn, a college dropout turned millionaire, testifies: “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

 

School is a place where a hundred people read the same book. That's downright stupidity. Those one hundred people can read one hundred books. Do the math.

 

Skip Biz Schools; educate yourself.

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