Screw Adulthood. Or Not.
Heyo! It's been god knows how long since I touched LJ. I forgot I had one. Might as well update:
I just graduated from UT (well, it's been about a week and a half now)! I cleared a lot of what plagued me in undergrad. Setting up a restriction to prioritize academics first for the MBA, along with correcting the thyroid problem, and perhaps a little maturity led to a jump from a 3.24 undergrad finish to a 3.87 MBA finish.
In a sense, it's a shame to stop, because improvement kept occurring. I kind of chuckle even at my more recent posts...I've written 3400 words on problem sets half the class couldn't even get an A on in 3 hours, and pulled over 96 on them multiple times. I've increased the duration I can tolerate speed-reading ridiculously and have the discipline to do it any time I need to, not just last minute. Don't worry though, I'm the same in that I still apply a cost-benefit to a given level of effort input, I'm just better at it now.
Problem is, that's good for all the confidence in the world for school. Right now, however, I need work. Anybody whose head is located somewhere other than up their hindside would probably notice that now isn't a good time to be entering the labor pool. An MBA is an advantage, but it falls squarely behind multiple years of experience.
I have two major concerns: can I hold up in the grind of "real life" work, given the hourly requirements will leave me idle? Also, can I prove myself there in the blow-out fashion I was able to once-again showcase at the graduate level? They might have to be related. One thing I absolutely hate is time weighted equally when it is not equal. If I submit an A-grade portion to my group in 1 hour when it took someone else 5, but the amount is the same, it's nonsense that I should be penalized. However, my experience with most pay systems is that they do that ----> I have no incentive to be able to do it in 1 hour, and could be penalized for slacking off DESPITE higher productivity than peers in the time I DO work. It was a problem for me in UT's mostly team-based courses, one I circumvented by often hiding whilst doing my portion, such that I not be given more work unfairly.
I doubt that will fly in a career. So then, there's only 1 road: try to outperform everybody until I can get to a position where my compensation is ACTUALLY based on performance. Unfortunately, as I've learned after advanced microeconomics, that rarely occurs, and our government is driving it to be less likely as we speak in more industries, and increasing the severity of them in ones it already had its tendrils stuck into (increasingly socialized medicine being a prominent example, but not the only one). I could probably start a political war here on the back of what would be 80 pages of economic analysis I typed, but fortunately I probably don't have enough readers left for that ;).
Overcoming that will be a bitch, but first I have to get an interview :(!
I just graduated from UT (well, it's been about a week and a half now)! I cleared a lot of what plagued me in undergrad. Setting up a restriction to prioritize academics first for the MBA, along with correcting the thyroid problem, and perhaps a little maturity led to a jump from a 3.24 undergrad finish to a 3.87 MBA finish.
In a sense, it's a shame to stop, because improvement kept occurring. I kind of chuckle even at my more recent posts...I've written 3400 words on problem sets half the class couldn't even get an A on in 3 hours, and pulled over 96 on them multiple times. I've increased the duration I can tolerate speed-reading ridiculously and have the discipline to do it any time I need to, not just last minute. Don't worry though, I'm the same in that I still apply a cost-benefit to a given level of effort input, I'm just better at it now.
Problem is, that's good for all the confidence in the world for school. Right now, however, I need work. Anybody whose head is located somewhere other than up their hindside would probably notice that now isn't a good time to be entering the labor pool. An MBA is an advantage, but it falls squarely behind multiple years of experience.
I have two major concerns: can I hold up in the grind of "real life" work, given the hourly requirements will leave me idle? Also, can I prove myself there in the blow-out fashion I was able to once-again showcase at the graduate level? They might have to be related. One thing I absolutely hate is time weighted equally when it is not equal. If I submit an A-grade portion to my group in 1 hour when it took someone else 5, but the amount is the same, it's nonsense that I should be penalized. However, my experience with most pay systems is that they do that ----> I have no incentive to be able to do it in 1 hour, and could be penalized for slacking off DESPITE higher productivity than peers in the time I DO work. It was a problem for me in UT's mostly team-based courses, one I circumvented by often hiding whilst doing my portion, such that I not be given more work unfairly.
I doubt that will fly in a career. So then, there's only 1 road: try to outperform everybody until I can get to a position where my compensation is ACTUALLY based on performance. Unfortunately, as I've learned after advanced microeconomics, that rarely occurs, and our government is driving it to be less likely as we speak in more industries, and increasing the severity of them in ones it already had its tendrils stuck into (increasingly socialized medicine being a prominent example, but not the only one). I could probably start a political war here on the back of what would be 80 pages of economic analysis I typed, but fortunately I probably don't have enough readers left for that ;).
Overcoming that will be a bitch, but first I have to get an interview :(!