This class is the last of my MBA core requirements and the last class of what is the roughest patch of getting an MBA.  The stretch of courses that all students and grads dread and tell horror stories about.  The quantitative courses, in this case 4 in a row at 6 weeks each for a grand total of 24 grueling weeks of hard time and agony.  I’m in the home stretch and can smell victory from here.  I won’t tell you what I was smelling at the start of this but victory wasn’t what comes to mind.  

Anyway, I’ve decided to go ahead and list my MBA (pending) on my resume and apply at various jobs off of some of those famous employment sites.  So far I’ve had one callback with my salary requirements by an executive headhunting firm but I’m trying to gauge if there is more interest in my resume now with my pending MBA on it than before.  I’ve only been doing this for a couple of days so it’s too early to tell, suffice to say I am using a quite vague, text only, cut and paste 1 page resume with formatting about as simple as it could get.  I’m serious here, we’re talking something I slapped together in Microsoft Notepad.  The intention is to capture one’s attention with the MBA listed about ¾ down the page instead of fancy fonts and cleverly “engineered” job titles and duties.  

Here’s the method and end game of all of this however.  First I am applying for only mid-career management and executive jobs.  Some of which I don’t even come close to qualifying for, others which I barely qualify for and still some of which I am handsomely qualified for but none of which are in my current career field unless you consider management it’s own career (which it is to some extent).  If I get calls, emails or interviews I would have to call my resume a success so that is the goal.  Not necessarily getting a job in of itself, however make no mistake, if I could make the same money that I make now, work Monday through Friday with nights and weekends off and live in the same city that I work in, I’d take the job in a heartbeat.  Not to say I’m actively looking though so I can afford to be extraordinarily picky.  

As for life, right now things look great in my personal and educational life and somewhat more frustrating in my professional life.  Like most people who’ve been at the same job for 6 - 7 years it’s hard not to burn out.

Tonight I posted my first discussion question for Managerial Finance and it was concerning corporate responsibility and ethics (one of my favorite topics actually) and I think I knocked it out of the park.  I still haven’t received my Managerial Accounting grade which has me antsy, I’ve checked for it about 6 times already today…so I guess you could say I’m eager to see how I did.  I keep saying “4.0, 4.0, 4.0” whenever I look, fingers crossed of course.  Hey, as long as I can maintain that beautiful 4.0 GPA then I’m a happy camper all the way.

Cheers!