Thank you for calling, have a nice day :)

Needless to say I am not missing those words now. Even when  I am not doing anything useful at the moment, or just wasting my time with house chores, or just officially unemployed. No. Not missing them.

And then once in a while a thought came to mind, wild enough it might set me free, at least for a year or two. Wanna know what that is? MBA.

MBA.

Why would I want to pursue MBA?

Because it opens doors. People will either have assumptions about the expertise an MBA brings or will have an MBA and feel therefore that competence flows from an MBA or they will figure since they had to through it that therefore you should have to go through it (the hazing rationalization).

In the end you do it because it opens doors.

One of my favourite articles that I have ever read is Matthew Stewart's The Management Myth, which ultimately inspires a book.

In it, Stewart argues that MBAs are basically overpaid philosophers and that the industry is intellectually bankrupt. To me, that sounds like a challenge to the field. It sounds to me that there need to be people who come up with really good work that goes beyond the simplicities of Porter's five forces.

Any college experience will give you access to a host of people with similar interests. For an MBA, you will have the opportunity to not only build business contacts (a 'Rolodex' in outdated terminology) but also learn economics, finance, accounting, computer science, and mostly everything else possible.

Don't ever let college trap you into a major's minutiae. Take any class you need. Talk to people in the field you want to go into business in. Figure out where the technology, culture and society is going. Go to an office hour for every single class you have. Go into essay and business development courses. Look into what local NGOs may need as far as business management. Attend job fairs.

Learn how to do real research and push your field into a new domain, but don't be too surprised when a lot of people are less than impressed with your new-found capabilities.

Hopefully I will learn something of value, inshaallah.