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02 Feb 2016, 08:40
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Hello,
I am having 8 years of experience as design engineer in a power plant related company. I want to prepare for GMAT.
I want to know about life after completing B-school at US. I agree that financially, I will be at better potion. But I want to know status of life i.e will I be able to give time to my family after office. What about the stress levels at job?? At my present job, the level of stress is very high and I usually leave office at 8-9 in the night. To balancing this, salary is at higher side. But after 8 year of my experience in job, I figure out that after some time, you need to have less stressful life. And family should always come 1st. So I have explored the option of GMAT. Am I right? Is the job after GMAT will be different. Please share your views. Kindly advice.
I am having 8 years of experience as design engineer in a power plant related company. I want to prepare for GMAT.
I want to know about life after completing B-school at US. I agree that financially, I will be at better potion. But I want to know status of life i.e will I be able to give time to my family after office. What about the stress levels at job?? At my present job, the level of stress is very high and I usually leave office at 8-9 in the night. To balancing this, salary is at higher side. But after 8 year of my experience in job, I figure out that after some time, you need to have less stressful life. And family should always come 1st. So I have explored the option of GMAT. Am I right? Is the job after GMAT will be different. Please share your views. Kindly advice.
02 Feb 2016, 18:02
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Dear GURUBANU,
I'm happy to respond.
First of all, I will say that I am no expert on this---among other things, I don't have an MBA myself---but I am happy to share my views.
My friend, you speak as if there is a single experience that follows an MBA. I think you could ask 1000 different recent MBA grads about their experience and get 1000 completely different answers. It's true that if you shoot for the super-high salaries, there is more of a chance that such an environment will demand long hours and create high stress. If you make it your goal to find companies that treat their employees more humanely, you can certainly find that, but it may well be at less than the top salary. You have to think carefully about this trade-off. In my observation, the folks who choose to earn a little less money and have a more pleasant experience at work and more time for their families are infinitely more happy than those whose highest priority is consistently the top dollar.
I think the MBA simply gives you more choices, but it is still 100% up to you to choose well or to choose badly. It is 100% up to you even to decide what are the best criteria by which you will make the choice of place to work.
It's really the same as a college education. There is not a single experience that folks have when the graduate from college: again, a 1000 different grads would recount 1000 wildly different experiences. College is simply about giving you more choices. Some people choose incredibly well; others, badly.
When it comes down to it, getting more money is only about giving you more choices. Money doesn't instantly guarantee happiness: in fact, all studies show that, above subsistence levels, income and happiness are entirely uncorrelated.
It could be said that the great tragedy of modern life consists of all the ways that people chase all the things that will give them greater choice, but then when they have all that choice, they don't actually choose the things that would make them happy. In the modern age, there is more of disconnect between what people think will make them happy vs. what actually makes people happy than has existed in any previous point in history, at least from what I can tell.
You, my friend, have a clear priority on family. That is definitely one of things that contributes to genuine and profound happiness in life. Don't let anyone take that priority away from you. That is golden.
I will say, also, some work environments have more or less stress, but it's also true that the general stress level people feel tends to be a lot more about the head-space that people carry through life than it does with the external environments. I assume you are aware of practices such as meditation, yoga, tai ch'i, etc. that, among other things, consistently reduce one's stress response across the board in life. It can be hard finding the time to invest in such practices, especially with a family, but the payoff for you and for your family are incalculable.
I hope you find these ramblings helpful. Let me know if you would like to discuss any of this further.
Mike
02 Feb 2016, 18:18
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Sorry man, but I could not imagine a more boring and relaxed job than an engineer at a power plant. I think just the application experience alone will be stressful.
