Purposelessness Personified

Placements are over. Everyone is placed.

The placements process at a Bschool is a melange of emotions and expressions - anxiety , curiousity,expectation,depression, desperation, happiness,glee, delight, hopelessness, self-doubt - a combination which is tough to explain ,unless you see it for yourself.

Now that its all over, a sense of purposeless-ness will pervade our lives for the next 3 months.Everyone comes for an MBA with one purpose - get a job (where one had none) or get a better job(where one had one) - the intention being to move up in life.Suddenly, one day, that purpose is lost on you when you have a job in your hand. So what do you do after that????

You have all the fun that you can in the remaining time at college before getting into the rigours and routines of a job. And this is where a lot of MBA students are caught unawares.They find it difficult to adjust to realities on the ground after leading a rigourous ,yet cushy life in an MBA course.

MBA classrooms have the habit of treating business difficulties in an objective problem-solution manner.Businesses have problems , and MBAs are the solution-providers.

So MBAs go out into the business world armed with their case-study approaches and problem-solution methods.But real life , they find out , is a lot more complicated. A lot of political, economic, social,human issues affect business decision-making - and these can never be simulated in a classroom. Bschools also make your life interesting and exciting by simulating different situations - but real life is a lot more dull(everyday, you live the same case study,and it doesn't change!!) .A lot more routine - and never as interesting.

I read on a blog somewhere - "An MBA is like a great wine-tasting session.Enjoy it while it lasts."

Well Said.