An MBA was what I wanted to do to actually step up my chances of getting a good fat paycheck or rather putting it in a different perspective; to end up with some glam title as my designation in the organisation or frankly admitting because Tech wasn't where I wanted to end up being...You can have any of these as your reasons.Come on ...now I am not falling to the routine interview answers of I wanted to do an MBA because I wanted to learn the nuisances of business blah blah. NOBODY does an MBA for that.Yeah..u were stuck up without promotions in your previous job can be accepted as a valid reason. (This one added to the list only after realising the plight of the people who crib all the tym in the office )
The one thing that struck me as I was a few months into my MBA was that work ex ppl DO seem to have some edge although I have been denying that in all my interviews/discussions during prep days.So I thought while working with them in projects and assignments and listening to how they sound very valid when putting across their views in a class discussion,I also realized my naivety on professional world during the same course. So what happened as a result was that I looked forward to my summer internship as a chance to see the WORLD through my own eyes and have the experience of working albeit for a small span of time. I wont deny that I expected to learn a lot in these days while I do realise that its too early to comment that I didn't. :)
Cutting a long story short, I came to this highly reputed company and learn quite a lot. Some of the noteworthy things that I learnt:
- Well this one deserves a first place coz my guide said " Corporate Life Lesson 1: Those who have no work at all in the office attend meetings to look busy."
- Office gossip and planning the next months party/annual outbound trip is the most important thing to do in an office even if you are running super late on your schedule for your targets to be achieved.
- Your motto to come to the office might be to start with a coffee, then start shouting for lunch after that, having the post lunch coffee and then looking at the watch to rush back home as soon as it hits 5.
- FB is the survival strategy for all those who hate their work at the office.
- Interns are guinea pigs on which you can try any damn thought of yours.
- The best way to shoo away any over enthusiast internee is to send them on a market visit. Worse than that, give them a stupid excel sheet to make.
- Even if the guide spares out some time for their protege , it is to discuss how great learning experience their own summers was.
- Talking to a lot of experienced people made me realise that its only how effectively you can show that you are busy that matters rather than what you actually work.
- Summers are nothing but disguised holidays or sponsored travels and tours for most of the tortured souls in an MBA college
- Most of the people cribbing about their interns have to be freshers coz the work ex people already knew what was coming their way and saying in their hearts," Now you know why we left our fat paying checks to resume college life and slog in those mostly boring classes.... :D "
PS- I guess it all depends on perspective on which you took ur MBA, so the views can definitely differ from one individual to another. :)
