Article on Career choices and decisions. Useful for MBA Interviews. Link to full article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-mba-after-engineering-finally-answered-amit-pandey

1. Why MBA after Engineering?
In the days after CAT, I read a lot of nonfiction to back my interviews with relevant facts. Facts,
which were useless, when all you needed was to convince them was -
“Why MBA?” and especially, “Why MBA after Engineering?”
Not just in the interviews, the same question has become a popular discussion point in trains, buses
and somehow, remains as a source of identity-crisis for some. It's as is, all the engineers are
engineers just because they were made one by their parents?!
Famous IIT/IIM people of the likes of Chetan Bhagat have often been subjected to similar cynicism.
And yet, they have left it untouched and unanswered. There’s a cynical notion that an MBA post
Engineering is a knee-jerk decision, such are the so-called learnings whether it is "3 Idiots" or "Two
States."
The second most quoted misconception that I had to clarify often was that an MBA offers you a fast
track to riches. The different versions of the same story include the idea of it giving you a launchpad
for a successful career or strong connections.
In the first session of marketing in MBA, we were made aware of something called Marketing
Myopia. It is near-sightedness related to your ultimate motive of business. It’s the same Myopia that
makes people see money as the answer. It is negative because – first, it doesn’t tell anything about
you except that you are greedy and desperate and second, money is just the means and the
question has to do with the motives.
While I agree that the allure of money and happiness can make it hard to look elsewhere but we
must look for better answers.
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