Coursework Fatigue
The MBA marketing brochure goes to great pains to stress how intense the INSEAD MBA program really is, and how even though it's only one year it actually covers 80% of the material covered on a two year program. Having done some Marketing courses I've learned to take it all with a pinch of salt - certainly I think the INSEAD positioning statement of "A year to change your life" leaves some important facts out such as that most (yes, OK. Not all) of the changes achieved involve consulting at one end or the other.
However, back to coursework. I'm fatigued. I've had enough of coursework. And I seem to have lost all ability to get the energy/stress levels necessary to do a remotely good job on any of it. Next week has a feeling not unlike the view from the window of a car broken down on a high speed train line. The tracks have started vibrating and you're debating whether the car might start or whether you're better off opening the door and running for your life. I think there's a minimum of 3 big pieces of work due. A big piece of work is something around 20 pages long. I don't even know what they are yet - and believe me, normally I'm the organised one. Interestingly, all of the people in my groups have similar approaches - someone is bound to blink first and start doing work at some point. Oh well. But for know, interview preparation is a higher priority. A certain employer plans to interview me for 10 hours on next Monday. I can't wait.
On a more refreshing note, I'm reading "Howards End" by EM Forster. It is one of the best books I have read in a long time. The writing zings and tingles with emotion that makes it quite exhausting to read. I am almost afraid to finish it - it is like an elixir. I leave you with a quote that I think is particularly apt for the job search period.
"Actual life is full of false clues and signposts that lead nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who is prepared and is never taken."
CQW: What will be the first thing you buy once you get your dream job offer?
However, back to coursework. I'm fatigued. I've had enough of coursework. And I seem to have lost all ability to get the energy/stress levels necessary to do a remotely good job on any of it. Next week has a feeling not unlike the view from the window of a car broken down on a high speed train line. The tracks have started vibrating and you're debating whether the car might start or whether you're better off opening the door and running for your life. I think there's a minimum of 3 big pieces of work due. A big piece of work is something around 20 pages long. I don't even know what they are yet - and believe me, normally I'm the organised one. Interestingly, all of the people in my groups have similar approaches - someone is bound to blink first and start doing work at some point. Oh well. But for know, interview preparation is a higher priority. A certain employer plans to interview me for 10 hours on next Monday. I can't wait.
On a more refreshing note, I'm reading "Howards End" by EM Forster. It is one of the best books I have read in a long time. The writing zings and tingles with emotion that makes it quite exhausting to read. I am almost afraid to finish it - it is like an elixir. I leave you with a quote that I think is particularly apt for the job search period.
"Actual life is full of false clues and signposts that lead nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who is prepared and is never taken."
CQW: What will be the first thing you buy once you get your dream job offer?
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