Godliness….! my god!
its strange … the more ppl study, the more important they think themselves to have become … maybe even learned… and the more degrees they have, their egos inflate by a proportionately increasing variable…
and god forbid if the degree they are in line to get to off late is an MBA!!
if my interaction with fellow classmates and other MBA students/ passouts has taught me one thing, it is that an MBA thinks he is God incarnate. he’s raised himself on a pedestal, from where he looks down on the remaining mortals… wats more, he even expects ppl around him to treat him like he’s God.
and this thought does not necessarily stem from a person who already has an MBA to his name, no sir! the attitude starts much earlier… right from the moment he steps into the portals of the very institution that is going to confer on him the degree.
its not rare to see or hear fellow would-be MBA’s crib that the job (referring to the internship) they do is “not an MBA’s job” — err.. wat are the company ppl asking them to do?? bring cups of coffee?? no.no.. they have to research, maybe analyse an industry, or study a new product, or develop some charts that would be used later by the company … as an intern, do u really expect the company to give u ground-breaking research-work as an assignment?? or maybe since u;re god incarnate yourself maybe the CEO shud hv vacated his cabin for ur hghness??!
my take::: every job, however mundane it seems (with the probable exception of getting coffee) essentially teaches you something… its upto you whether u want to learn what the job wants to teach.. or hanker after the more “glamorous” jobs and in the process over-look the insights ur present assignment is giving you. like they say… even huge well paying jobs start off with reallly horrible internships..!
Hear ye…Hear ye! (emphatic clapping in the background)
Well said…and even the coffee carrying gives you that most invaluable managerial lesson…patience!
Totally agree!!!!
BTW, some of the humblest, most ego-deflated people I’ve known are doctors who have studied 10+ years after graduation. So the correlation between education and ego isn’t necessarily positive.
And let’s not even try to compare the quality and QUANTITY of medical education with engineering education for fear of us all looking like bumkins!
that i agree with…. but like most human beings … i tend to look at those who;re associated with my daily life… unfortunately. many of whom are not doctors!
Well i agree fully with you all. Bala is very right it teaches you patience more over it gives you a oppurtunity to understand a person. It may be case that the person is busy and in good spirit must have requested a brotherly help and it is better to wait and watch of such things rather then jumping to conclusions that the guy who has requested you a cup of coffee has really insulted you. May be he will do the same if you request him.
As of Prof Zaunak’s statement i agree with him but let us keep the mortal God’s away from the conversation as they are a class apart and this podium is not a correct place to have a discussion on it.
But all credit to the author Dipti for pulling once more her magic wand for getting another quality and a good read for lesser mortals like me. thanku thanku thanku eveery one.