I've been a tad bit lost for the past few months in terms of knowing what i want to do upon graduation. The initial plan was the graduate with a BEng (Mech) and apply for a job in Singapore as a project engineer, but after a mind numbing, excruciating internship, i've come to grips with one fact about myself :
I CANNOT DO THAT FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE
It started out well, new things, having a learning curve, and then came the excruciating boredom. The lack of a thought process in what i was doing for the past 6 months, the daily grind of doing the same thing. Perhaps research would have been more exciting but i'm not the type of person to slave away at a single project for months without seeing some personal gain in it for myself. Call me selfish, but its how i operate.
Then i decided to go start the process of applying to do and MBA, it being one of those exceedingly versatile degrees, widely applicable in any industry which deals with strategic thinking, people and how to conduct business. And then i hit yet another problem. I had no idea what i wanted to do once i got an MBA. Work for a bank? (Ugh, good money but its not for me), high flying CEO job? (too little time left over for personal hobbies when i have shareholders to consider, please correct me if my perception of this is wrong if you happen to be a CEO reading this).
And then i started reading up articles on consulting companies, oil trading, energy management and chancing across companies like Boston Consulting Group (BCG), McKinsey and British Petroleum, all offering MBA holders with engineering backgrounds company fellowships and work which require thinking on day to day basis. An oil trader for BP comes in every morning, pores over notes and news for the day and then strategises his trading for the day to maximise profit.
A BCG consultant for example goes over a clients business practice, down to even the positioning of sales counters in a particular store (assuming client is in retail) and uses human behavioral science and relations between sales figures and payment counter locations to maximise profit for the client.
I find these very interesting, and if an MBA opens those door for me even wider, hell, i'm going for it.
Now's the time my real education begins.
Cheers from the,
Matrix
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