Today was a stress day
Doing the MBA thing you're always juggling one hundred things in the air. Sometimes you blink and before you know it ten of them have hit the ground. Today I had a stress death spiral - I've had a couple before but hadn't really written about them.
What's a stress death spiral? Well, it's when you're stressed you've got too many things to do and then you realise you're stressed so you become less efficient at doing the things you need to do and then it feeds back on itself. You probably want to know where the death bit comes from - but for that you need to have done Accounting this term - it's a term the professor keeps banging on about.
What's causing stress so far? In no particular order:
1. Singapore. I'm having second thoughts. Is at least 3000EUR and more logistical hassle than deploying a UN peacekeeping force worth it for being able to say I "lived" in Singapore for 7 weeks? Somedays I think yes. Other days I think actually, that's a pretty superficial thing. You won't really get to see what it's like to live there. And that the primary reason for going is cause every one else is. I can still pull out. But they sent an e-mail today asking you to apply for visas, student passes and all the rest of it. Deadlines next week, so really have to finally bite that bullet. The deadlines make it all the more urgent to engage arse into gear.
2. Job. I still have no clue at all as to what to do with my life job wise. Deadline for submitting CV to the CV book is next Tuesday. Kinda hard to write a CV if you don't know what it is you're shooting for. But sitting down to write CV for the first time kinda made that one seem a lot more real and urgent.
3. Group. This term we have a lot more groupwork assignments. A lot of these are on the softer skill courses. The Marketing assignment we are doing is going to destroy the group. I know it. Why? Because sticking an engineer, a pilot, an introverted american engineer and a non-English fluent Chinese together and asking them to do something creative that involves English is a pretty high bar.
In other news, I passed my French test. Which means I don't have to worry about having to take French lessons. So at least that's one less thing to worry about. This is the beginning of a spiral reversal. I hope anyway.
What's a stress death spiral? Well, it's when you're stressed you've got too many things to do and then you realise you're stressed so you become less efficient at doing the things you need to do and then it feeds back on itself. You probably want to know where the death bit comes from - but for that you need to have done Accounting this term - it's a term the professor keeps banging on about.
What's causing stress so far? In no particular order:
1. Singapore. I'm having second thoughts. Is at least 3000EUR and more logistical hassle than deploying a UN peacekeeping force worth it for being able to say I "lived" in Singapore for 7 weeks? Somedays I think yes. Other days I think actually, that's a pretty superficial thing. You won't really get to see what it's like to live there. And that the primary reason for going is cause every one else is. I can still pull out. But they sent an e-mail today asking you to apply for visas, student passes and all the rest of it. Deadlines next week, so really have to finally bite that bullet. The deadlines make it all the more urgent to engage arse into gear.
2. Job. I still have no clue at all as to what to do with my life job wise. Deadline for submitting CV to the CV book is next Tuesday. Kinda hard to write a CV if you don't know what it is you're shooting for. But sitting down to write CV for the first time kinda made that one seem a lot more real and urgent.
3. Group. This term we have a lot more groupwork assignments. A lot of these are on the softer skill courses. The Marketing assignment we are doing is going to destroy the group. I know it. Why? Because sticking an engineer, a pilot, an introverted american engineer and a non-English fluent Chinese together and asking them to do something creative that involves English is a pretty high bar.
In other news, I passed my French test. Which means I don't have to worry about having to take French lessons. So at least that's one less thing to worry about. This is the beginning of a spiral reversal. I hope anyway.
posted by The Apprentice at 11:11 PM
4 Comments:
OK, the job thing is a total no-brainer. You _are_ an entrepreneur. If you accidentally cut yourself, without any further preparation or training, you would bleed entrepreneurship.
The only thing you have to figure out is what you want to apply your entrepreneurial talents to (please note: some entrepreneurs lead varied - very varied - careers, so it's really just a question of getting stuck in and seeing where you end up).
A word of advice: try and make sure it's not Slough (bit of a step down from Fontainbleu).
i love you anonymous...and your see-through blinds
What see-through blinds??
Great, now you've made me paranoid...
now, I'd really rather this wasn't true as I honestly don't want to feed your paranoia, but...
.....the ones in your bedroom.
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