While I was away…

When you haven’t written anything other than project reports and half-baked business plans, created PowerPoint presentations with heavy help from templates for style and Google for data, watched a gazillion movies that you cannot remember now, revised your entire collection of Scrubs, Smallville and Prison Break, there is nothing original one can come up with.

This has been my story. Well, at least it’s a part of what I have been doing.

Another part of me has gone back to college in the hopes of getting an MBA degree in a few months and eventually ending up with a good job and an exponential increase in my pay. Of course, with the current economic situation, I’m afraid that the ‘exponent’ that I mentioned could be negative or even a fraction!

Living in a hostel for the first time and it has been quite an experience. No matter how old or cynical you are, you do tend to get sucked into the politics and gossip-mongering of it all. Like, who is dating whom, who slept with whom and who got drunk in the hostel room and who complained against them and what was the punishment meted out and so on and so forth.

Childish nonsense aside, going back to college has been a revelation for me. I learnt a lot about myself and the way I work in just a few months. One of the most important things I learnt was that I am not a team player – at all. I am passive aggressive most of the times and I’m plainly aggressive the rest of the times. I suspected it all the time, but the revelation truly alarmed me. I do work hard, and in most cases harder than anyone else, but I didn’t know this quality would make me the worst team mate ever. I am a perfectionist and it seems nobody likes one.

Now I’m not that worried about it. I’m willing to listen and learn. I’m now more open to ideas than ever before. Hell, I’ll research a stupid idea before I call it stupid! That’s another thing I’m learning – to listen.

MBA is doing me a lot of good, I must say. I don’t think it’s just the MBA though. I think it’s more the company I keep (or the lack of it), the things I see and hear in college or at the hostel and the situations I face every day. I wouldn’t be arrogant and call it an ultimate training center for the corporate world, but yeah, you do pick up a few tricks here and there to survive there, I guess.

Enough rambling for now. Will come up with more later.

Amen.