Ok, so I now have a job (a good one too), but apart from getting the right job, there are so many aspects that one has to consider post MBA, especially if that city you live in, ain't your home town or is not in your home country. For example:
1) Is this the place where you want to settle in? Do you go for the permanent residency or citizenship?
2) Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years from a job, life and location perspective?
3) Are you ready to buy a house?
4) And most importantly, how do you finance your life to success? You definitely have the outstanding student loan to pay for - remember?
Those are the rather broader questions that any MBA will have to answer somewhere down the line. You change locations, jobs and functions post MBA, so it kind of becomes important to answer these as well.
Some find it easy to answer, as they take a 'tackle life as it comes' approach personally or have enough expendable funds to support their post MBA life decisions as they come and go. For the ones who totally depend upon post MBA job income, the 'tackle life as it comes' approach works too sometimes, more so when there are too many things going on in parallel, and you want to sit back and enjoy the daily pleasures of life - ordering a pizza and watching a movie with friends, or catching those Pokemons! But you see, if the Googles and Apples of the world started taking this approach, they would just hit an all time low on their stock performances in a span of few years (a few days in the current world scenario) as the stakes are too high! And if you find yourself in such high stakes situation, then planning your life takes the number one priority!
As far as I am concerned, I am still trying to answer all the 4 questions, and I am yet to successfully plan my life at least for the next few years in the horizon. As I'm trying to figure things out, my simple motto, in the meanwhile, is to reduce my debt to earnings/savings ratio! That definitely does not mean that I'm not enjoying my day-to-day life! It just means that I'm not indulging into actions that require me to take on additional debt - such as buying the house of my dreams! To that end, I'm having fun with my friends, I order pizza when I want to (hahaha), play Skyrim on my Alienware, and often give in to my tech savvy needs [a new super awesome smart phone and/or an HDR 65 inch TV?].
Let's see when I come up with my immediate future plans, but there's one thing I can certainly say: owing to my MBA, my life is not commoditized enough [yet] in the job world, which buys me some time to sit back and breathe, while Google and Apple strategize and act on their respective game plans day in and day out! What does that mean for you? Go get an MBA of your dreams - if you really want to, while MBA still holds the prestige and until it doesn't turn into the (For instance: Male + Engineering + IT job profile amongst millions of prospective MBA students from India) commoditized career path of tomorrow!
1) Is this the place where you want to settle in? Do you go for the permanent residency or citizenship?
2) Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years from a job, life and location perspective?
3) Are you ready to buy a house?
4) And most importantly, how do you finance your life to success? You definitely have the outstanding student loan to pay for - remember?
Those are the rather broader questions that any MBA will have to answer somewhere down the line. You change locations, jobs and functions post MBA, so it kind of becomes important to answer these as well.
Some find it easy to answer, as they take a 'tackle life as it comes' approach personally or have enough expendable funds to support their post MBA life decisions as they come and go. For the ones who totally depend upon post MBA job income, the 'tackle life as it comes' approach works too sometimes, more so when there are too many things going on in parallel, and you want to sit back and enjoy the daily pleasures of life - ordering a pizza and watching a movie with friends, or catching those Pokemons! But you see, if the Googles and Apples of the world started taking this approach, they would just hit an all time low on their stock performances in a span of few years (a few days in the current world scenario) as the stakes are too high! And if you find yourself in such high stakes situation, then planning your life takes the number one priority!
As far as I am concerned, I am still trying to answer all the 4 questions, and I am yet to successfully plan my life at least for the next few years in the horizon. As I'm trying to figure things out, my simple motto, in the meanwhile, is to reduce my debt to earnings/savings ratio! That definitely does not mean that I'm not enjoying my day-to-day life! It just means that I'm not indulging into actions that require me to take on additional debt - such as buying the house of my dreams! To that end, I'm having fun with my friends, I order pizza when I want to (hahaha), play Skyrim on my Alienware, and often give in to my tech savvy needs [a new super awesome smart phone and/or an HDR 65 inch TV?].
Let's see when I come up with my immediate future plans, but there's one thing I can certainly say: owing to my MBA, my life is not commoditized enough [yet] in the job world, which buys me some time to sit back and breathe, while Google and Apple strategize and act on their respective game plans day in and day out! What does that mean for you? Go get an MBA of your dreams - if you really want to, while MBA still holds the prestige and until it doesn't turn into the (For instance: Male + Engineering + IT job profile amongst millions of prospective MBA students from India) commoditized career path of tomorrow!
