Being a fresher, and on the verge of beginning MBA, I am now constantly being told by people around me that my life will be all about either sitting in a multinational selling stocks, attending meetings which are indirectly said to decide the fate of big corporations or selling schemes and policies to people and finally receiving a paycheck at the end of the month, sufficient enough to pay my bills.

I am not calling corporate jobs mundane, it’s just a matter of preference. I mean no one can say being Chanda Kochhar would suck, even myself, and she has reached this level by all the hard work needed in a multinational bank job from probably a management trainee to the C.E.O.. Total respect to people having a dream like her’s.

I don’t know whether Chetan Bhagat is still doing a job or not, but surely the best job he now does technically doesn’t require his IIM-A degree.

National award winning lyricist Prasoon Joshi is an IMT passout. He is not using his MBA degree in writing anywhere maybe, so he should throw it away!

Padma Shri Anjum Chopra, an alumni of FORE School of Management, has no apparent use of her MBA degree now, for who uses management skills on cricket ground? Or atleast many people think so.

The common thing among all the above examples is that each one had planned their respective careers initially. Just because those choices do not terminate into cubicles containing files and conference rooms doesn’t mean their degree got wasted. Management is much more broad than many people think it is. Decision making, group tasks, public speaking and much more uses of MBA make it a degree open for all (all streams students can take admission in MBA) and open to all (you can do anything after MBA and it is perfectly fine).In my opinion, it’s a bit biased to think that once you are done with MBA, your dream job would be in Citibank. It can be anywhere, maybe not a company, maybe not a bank. In how different ways people use management in their real life as well as their professional life, actually decides the essence of management.

Your suggestions and views are welcome!