TIME and Tide wait for bakras

TIME = CAT coaching institute

Tide= FMCG, fancy category for a washing powder company!

Is an MBA worth it? Its a difficult question to answer, not because a number of non-quantifiable parameters have to be evaluated, but because i happen to be studying for one!, its pretty hard to say "Yes" and keep a straight face. Anyway, i spent around eight, nine months studying for CAT, and ended up getting an admit through JMET.

Every institute has its own strengths and weaknesses, but from within the college, you can see only the bad parts. Call it myopia, selective perception, whatever. The only thing that you are taught here is to prepare for the long hours at work. Staring at laptop screens. Checking out the HR babes, or in my case assuming all the hot chicks would take HR (gives you a chauvinistic ego boost, we tend to think HR is not "brain-work", when in fact, nothing is!).

The long hours spent discussing case-studies from HBR will teach you to take when and how to take breaks, get other people to pay for your smokes, and sip tea for an hour after it has gone cold etc. This may sound pathetic, but these are the skills that will actually be required in the industry.

Getting back to FMCG. Fast Moving Consumer Goods companies require you to do one thing, move their consumer goods as fast as possible. And glib talkers are preferred. MBA or not. Anyway im too bored to continue, and i have a party to attend, and three assignments after that, so ciao.