Oh No its Monday again!!! This was the first thing that came to my mind on the very first day of the week. With sleepy eyes and sluggish footsteps I would get ready and reach office. Then I used to check my mails to find my “to-do” list of the day and plan my work accordingly. But as life is full of surprises…my boss would call me and ask me “What are your assignments for the day?” I would reply “I need to atleast work on 5 assignments and also need to follow up atleast 4 of the clients”. My boss used to say “That’s not much of a work, here are some more…” And he would ask me to complete them by the “close of business hours”. This seemed to happen regularly…I kept doing the same stuff every day and even weekends…It was boring, there was nothing new or challenging, managers were deciding I was implementing…I lost interest in my job, I became mechanical.

I knew this wouldn’t take me a long way. I needed to do something on my own, take decisions on my own, and the person who I work for should at least know my name and not just identify me as an “Employee ID”. But for all this I needn’t only technological knowledge that I gained from engineering, but also the skills to manage people, time, take decisions according to the situation and most importantly presenting my thoughts. And a MBA could help me to do all this and that’s when I decided to preparing myself to “bell the CAT”.

The first thing that I did was took admission into one of the coaching institutes as other MBA aspirant. The next thing that I did is managed time to really prepare well for the D-Day. It was really very difficult to manage time so I took a back seat in my office, did only what I was asked to do and rest of the time prepared. I attended my weekend classes and solved test papers in my office in whatever time I got. I spent as much time as possible in preparing myself by going through different MBA websites, attending workshops and seminars and also talking to different alumni of the different colleges I had applied to learning about “Life in a B-School” .Then I started taking mock tests. Initially my scores were poor; I got demoralized and thought that MBA was not my cup of tea. I became apprehensive about my poor ratings in my office. But the very next moment the image of my dream would appear before my eyes which I couldn’t afford to trade–off. I had to choose and here got an opportunity to take a decision on my own and prove it correct. This is what I wanted and realized I had no other option than to move ahead and prepare myself for the big day, so I did…and finally belled the “CAT”…