I guess every fresh graduate must go through this, but I dont know if he has the oppurtunity to throw away great oppurtunities in the process.
The thing is, Im not brilliant at anything, not by far. Im not even very good. Im merely competant, when I try enough. And if I have to try to be merely competant, then I dont want it because thats not good enough. and so I let things slide from me.
Nowadays, I have two different paths, great ones, before me, and I have managed to bungle up one because of this syndrome, and the other is well on its way.. atleast I’ve done everything I possibly can, the reaction may take some time coming.
Im an MS now. I dont want to do a phd and thats partially why the first path is bungled up. I want to go back to Pakistan so I have to do an mba or something.. but thats not a good reason to do an mba eh? plus i suspect im not mba material by far. i guess this is a different topic from that.. but i guess everything contributes to make me the wreck that i am.
so what do i do now? im 23 so its too late for a career change btw.
23 is not too old to make a career transition, but it appears that you have to decide on a career direction before you can start a career transition.
as far as bungling things up, all of us done it at one time or another but the solution may not be to just get into something else, but is to stop the bungling..build some good skills for the future direction..which you need to figure out and then make the transition.
Ravage, lemme make life simpler for you.
Tell me what course you wish to do and I ll get you admitted u to the university of Visayas Philippines,.
You name it and I ll guarantee you admissions.
All at the price of education back home in india or pakistan.
Wat say? [email protected] awaits your reply.
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what is mba material ? any one can do it just need to put some effort on it. MBA from lums or iba is much better then a phd that will be useless later on, and in cs it seems that way. it seems every cs graduate has the same thinking as yours. be it after graduation or a ms degree :-)
look at the thread in culture about IT professionals, the scenario makes me smile
i am in no state to suggest anything. you seem reasonble person to me, i am sure u will figure it out.
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mba material.. i guess people skills are much more essential in management jobs than in research groups.
and i guess im not a typical cs crossover.. since im not an IT person. im more research oriented which makes an mba jump all the more difficult since thus far all i've been living in is agent based systems, distributed ai, markov decision processes etc etc.
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ravage
23 is not too old to make a career transition, but it appears that you have to decide on a career direction before you can start a career transition.
as far as bungling things up, all of us done it at one time or another but the solution may not be to just get into something else, but is to stop the bungling..build some good skills for the future direction..which you need to figure out and then make the transition.
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great advice. thats what im doing. we give this one more shot and let the hubris thing drop a bit. here, by 'we', i mean myself.
ravage come on now, dont be a drama queen, thats MY department aight
i reckon what u need to do is forget school for some time, get ur work permit in the usa, find urself a job, get some real life work experience. thats gona teach u a lot and u’ll find going back to school much more rewarding if u decide u wana do that at all. dont spend all ur life in school. phd or mba can happen later too. for now, ms is good.
p.s. underestimating urself is haraam and so is being pessimistic thats the latest fatwa from me :Pagri:
. hey i only have my moments. lemme wallow while im at it.
and i do have a job behooda. im just dead..deadsomething with it. not doing anything even tho its probably the most applied work of my theoretical knowledge possible.
neway. me workin now. so shanks and you’re welcome to all the drama queening you want now.
another thing i feel very sad about is that i've never been so much as been assigned warning points even tho im as potty mouthed as the best of them.
ah! to have the glory of infamy, to burn in the brief shining absence that lights GS alive every now and then when someone is a bigger arse than usual.
this intruiges me and gives me hope. irem tum to buhat hi behooda aurat ho who jo kay ginti kay chand salon may thirty ki ho jaye gi.
thats the latest fatwa from me :Pagri:
. hey i only have my moments. lemme wallow while im at it.
