Why do I take MBA

Coming from a legal background, people keep asking me why do I take MBA?

My answer to the question differs everytime not because that I am clueless in living my life or that I have so much time that I just needed something to do to fill the glaring lacuna; but mainly because it depends on my mood at the time when the question was asked.

The main objective or main goal or main reason or you can say the crux of my intention in taking this course is simple; I want to gain more knowledge and enhance myself.

Once the main objective has been established, people rarely stop there, they will normally proceed to ask these questions below (or sometimes even more questions):

1) Why MBA and not LLM as it is quite a normal progression from LLB?
2) Will the MBA guarantees me a hefty pay raise and a promotion?
3) Why do I sacrifice my time, family in pursuing this course?

Again my answer will depend on my mood when the questions were asked.

But generally for question number one, I just feel that at this point in time in my life, I want to have an MBA and NO, I don't have any other brilliant reply apart from I just feel that way. Or when I really am not in the mood I will just answer, "I don't know"... hehehe

For question number 2, my answer will always be NO. Not wanting to sound geek-ish or nerd-ish but I really like studying new things for self development, always wanting to learn new language(s), new set of skills etc etc. After researching for courses from the internet, MBA seems to fit the bill to quench my thirst for general knowledge as the syllabus covers almost every aspect of running a corporation. I am quite certain that MBA will be able to fill what I needed to know, for now. After completing one semester of it, I have no doubt that this is what I need, now. Who knows, I may also consider to pursue LLM or even PhD after completing this course. Que sera, sera.

For question number 3, whether you agree or disagree or agree to disagree, most things in life doesn't come to you easily without some sort of challenges and sacrifices that need to be made along the way. This goes to taking MBA and my guess is, as well as other courses or any other challenges in life. I know that I need to make a lot of sacrifices and I do feel blessed that my husband is supportive of my dreams and because of that I know that this is something that I must do passionately and not take things for granted. In other words, I better work my butt's off for the exam!

Nonetheless, despite the solid support system that I have been receiving (ie. hubby), there are still one or two people out there who still think that if it doesn't have a guaranteed return of investment (ROI) then why do I even bother. Not to mention having a two-year old who needs attention plus a husband, a full time job, house chores, family commitments etc etc etc. For some, to my disappointment, I was deemed a selfish person. Yes, this sometimes make me feel down and alone when my initial bona fide intentions were misconstrued. However, as mentioned by some supportive friends out there; this is all a mind game. Challenges come in many forms. Therefore, whenever I am in doubt, I will always do a simple self psychoanalysis to convince myself that furthering studies not only in doing MBA, but in almost all disciplines will always have its advantages if your intention is pure. The more challenges you face, the sweeter the success will be.

I am not sure whether my boss will ever give me any increment or promotion that seem to be the measurement of a good ROI upon getting the MBA, but I do believe that at the very least I will be more knowledgeable today than I did before. Hey, I can even use ROI in my normal conversation now, see, I do know slightly more today. And for me, that is good enough, anything more than that is deemed as a bonus.

xoxo

About FB and IG postings...

Seriously sometimes I feel as though am I the only one who are having financial constraints ie have to calculate for each and every purchase and all luxury items need to come from months of savings or even years... etc etc etc...

But after thinking about it for a while, my perception on this issue may be derived from all the FB or IG postings of friends, families and acquaintances of all their European trips, or luxury island get aways, designer handbags purchases, luxury cars, designer luxury homes etc etc and the list goes on and on.

It leads to some questions, such as, do people really spend according to their means or do some of them overspend their money, do most people in my FB and IG are rich or do these people actually spend money that they don't have to buy things that they think they need and at the end of the day suffering in silence with debt but yet posting all these material happiness to entice others to do the same or even to have some kind of adrenaline rush knowing that people in their FB or IG are actually green in envy seeing all these?

The above questions and arguments are mostly the frustrated me kind of talk as here I am trying very hard to meet the monthly house mortgage, and car instalment, and utilities bills, and child care monthly expenses, and formula milk, and disposable diapers, and grocery shopping, and taxes and etc etc etc and the list again goes on and on and on. Nonetheless, on better days and a more positive side of me thinking, maybe people ARE really good in their financial and they are posting all these just to share their happiness with all of their friends, families, acquaintances and even stalkers???...

But then again, these are my friends, families, acquaintances, stalkers (Mental Note: damn I need to revisit the kind of people that have access to my private life again) so who am I to judge them as most of them are just sharing a piece of their happiness with me. I am also human, I have shared thousands pictures of my daughter from the first day that she was born and all the other pictures or news or ideas or ramblings that I personally think is interesting. I am sure there are a lot of people in my list of friends find it not as exciting as I do. To that, I am sincerely sorry for cluttering your newsfeed.

Trying to spread some positivity here, to all (especially to my self), try not to post too many stuffs on social network, or set a limit like once or twice a day for the hardcore or once a week for those who have stronger will power and try not to judge or take everything at face value. Maybe some of them have other problems that they don't have the courage to share and the only way for them to be happy is by sharing whatever that makes them happy and to make other people happy too. If that is your reason, I sincerely thank you.

Positive vibes all around!

xoxo