Saturday, February 4, 2012

from Master in Marketing to MBA: What to do?

and yes I am very very busy and i thank GOD I finally had a day off for myself. After a few minutes reading tweets and lounging at Facebook. I got tired so I decided to update my Jobstreet and JobsDB account instead.

Specifically updated my highest educational attainment from Bachelor's Degree to Master's Degree.

Im proud of myself! Things are pretty hard in Graduate School especially in De La Salle, where the academic calendar is Trimestral. Every lesson is taught fast, like for instance it was just our third meeting in Statistics class and we were discussing Chapter 7-9 of the book already! Its hard to keep up especially if you have a full time work. I have three subjects (9 units) this term and next term, I will just take 6 units so I can have a day off each week. Each subject is very demanding, with case studies and a lot of readings required so I'd be better with two subjects next term. Oh well.

Speaking of next term, I am highly contemplating on shifting from MS in Marketing to Master of Business Administration (MBA).

I dont know, its just that MS Marketing is too specific for me and I guess it is aimed more on those practicing Marketing Management in their fields.

I am an Online News Researcher and though I participate greatly in class, I just cant seem to fit myself among my classmates in MSM. But will i fit in an MBA class, where my classmates are mostly MANAGERS in their own respective fields?

Well maybe... because I am actually the soon to be General Manager of our humble rubber manufacturing firm.

Upon contemplating I realized why have I been running away all my life from a destiny clearly laid out unto me. My dad is 63 years old.. Pretty soon he's gonna retire and who else will take over our company?

I am soo proud of my dad coz even though he was just a HS graduate, he was able to send me (and my illegit siblings for that matter) to school. He dreamt of a simple life, a family of his own, his own car, and to have a life with no boss and no time constraints.

Entrepreneurship is the way to go. I have the business, I have the physical assets, I have the human resource. I just dont have the guts to manage the company yet (or to go on training under my dad).

Maybe MBA will equip me the much needed confidence to make a giant leap for my career and take the risk of not being employed but to run my own company.

What to do?