“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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©LinkinMyth: My
Generation, Republica—KickassMBA
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