Dial M for MBA

This is what half of the graduates in this country do. Prepare for MBA.

So I being a no hotshot started this. Took failures. Thats the fun part!

The society doesnt let you live. Everybody doesnt go to the IIMs is it?

Random Uncle : Kya? Graduation ho gaya? Kya kar rahe ho aajkal?

Moi : (smiling broadly, as the uncle may have a beautiful daughter) I am a software engineer at a Big Filthy Rich Investment Bank.

Random Uncle : (With a shocked face) Kya MBA nahi kar rahe? Aajkal kya value hai ek engineer ki. If you want to progress then you have to go into management.

Moi : (I dont want to admit that this is the third time I am trying, still thinking that I am cool.) But I love to code and I am sort of doing that right now.

Random Uncle : But how will you earn more money, give your kids hopeless Indian education and your family a dream house.

The guy has a point. The kind of fucked up economics of the job market that we have, where software developers are available in truck loads, it does mean that to have a respectable future you must earn more i.e. do management jobs.

But what about the preparation? I was talking about failure.

It sucks the life out. You want to bask in the glory of your own money and enjoy, but that bloody mock doesnt let you live. You want to do things you always wanted to, as we were promised that after engineering from a good college life is easy, but you still have those repetitive chapters left. This is pure painful, agonizing, mind-numbing torture. And out of your pain, the sadist coaching institutes make a ton of money. And then there are peers.....

Random MBA aspirant: I scored 98 %ile dude !!! What a mock that was! You saw that question, blah blah...

Moi: (after abusing to my heart's content because I did miserable): Yeah, good man. You rock. IIMA is waiting for you! (Dog shit.)

Random MBA aspirant: What was your score? Tu to phodu hai be. You must have done very well.....

Moi: (Bhai jaan lele) Naaa I had just xx.x %ile....

My inner voice : Abe padhle jaake, why writing this blog?

Moi: Point!