Continuing in my path to achieve my main goal of become a CIO and as a Computer Science Engineer I'm aware that is very helpful to have a master's degree, that's why one of my goals of being here in the US is to continue my studies and pursue a MBA.
Why MBA?
Well, the answer is simple, as a CIO everything is about management (right?), even if I don't have a terrible technical background, is harder to get a position like that without more "people skills".
In this context, I decided to start the enrollment process in an university. It's a hard process, and even more if you come from a different education system. For example grades are from 0-100 and not from 0 to 4, transcripts come with a security seal and not in a close envelope send it directly from the school, etc.
Those who are familiar with the admission process won't allow me to lie about how hard is the admission test. It took me three months to be ready to take the famous GMAT admission test. What do you do in this time? simple, no other activity than study (including stop writing posts).
To make this sorter, I got accepted in the school and now I'm taking classes.
I'll be posting interesting anecdotes about how this is going. It seems like I still have a long way to go.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
No pain, no gain
We have heard a lot about sacrifice; "no pain, no gain", "things have a cost" are ideas that adults inculcate us since we are kids and we can see them everywhere, in the job, the school, the church.
The fact is, What are you willing to sacrifice in order to get what you want?
It's not an easy question and is even harder to get a answer to it; your family, friends, money, job or whatever you feel it's important for you.
Some people just ran for a dream, an idea, an ambition; and what they got back? desperation, loneliness, sadness or some other hard feeling.
Are they really successful people? men and women that do what they want in that specific time of their lives, but when they are finally there... in that dream job position, dream house, dream liberty, they just begin to wonder about situations, moments, people from other places, other times.
Of course there is a lot of really successful people because they found what they wanted in that new life, that's great, that means they found the balance in their life or just they felt better in that way.
From my short experience I think you have to be ambitious, but, before you run for that ambition you have to look inside of you and see how much you have to take away from your life, if that really doesn't matter then you are good to go. But it is worthless claim to be happy with something that makes us unhappy.
More responsibility implies more sacrifice, but also more satisfactions, Are those satisfactions enough to fill the sacrifice?
I'm not the richest person in the world, not even in my workplace or the building where I live, but I'm happy with my life, of course with ambitions, and I'm working to reach them, I'm ready to take my chance, even with the sacrifices that implies.
Maybe at the end the success could be measured in: What you are willing to do to get back? if is not too late.
The fact is, What are you willing to sacrifice in order to get what you want?
It's not an easy question and is even harder to get a answer to it; your family, friends, money, job or whatever you feel it's important for you.
Some people just ran for a dream, an idea, an ambition; and what they got back? desperation, loneliness, sadness or some other hard feeling.
Are they really successful people? men and women that do what they want in that specific time of their lives, but when they are finally there... in that dream job position, dream house, dream liberty, they just begin to wonder about situations, moments, people from other places, other times.
Of course there is a lot of really successful people because they found what they wanted in that new life, that's great, that means they found the balance in their life or just they felt better in that way.
From my short experience I think you have to be ambitious, but, before you run for that ambition you have to look inside of you and see how much you have to take away from your life, if that really doesn't matter then you are good to go. But it is worthless claim to be happy with something that makes us unhappy.
More responsibility implies more sacrifice, but also more satisfactions, Are those satisfactions enough to fill the sacrifice?
I'm not the richest person in the world, not even in my workplace or the building where I live, but I'm happy with my life, of course with ambitions, and I'm working to reach them, I'm ready to take my chance, even with the sacrifices that implies.
Maybe at the end the success could be measured in: What you are willing to do to get back? if is not too late.
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