Psycho(logically) speaking........

You know sometimes I'm tired of telling ppl how I came to do an MBA and choose media as a career...... & when i do manage to finish my story, all i get is "oh. i see!!!!!!!!"
Anyways, doin a B Sc in Psychology is not a very easy task according to me.....comin from a family of engineers and pure science graduates, no one would have even known theres a course for such a subject.... I had classmates who joined the course onl so that they could pass through the subjects without studyin anythin...... in my opinion, u need to study any damn subject u take, no matter how lame it might be.....
When i began doing psychology, i had a tough time tellin ppl it has been accepted as a science and not arts anymore..... I personally had great ambitions.... like do an MSc in clinical psychology and later do a Phd in it and become a clinical psychologist. But i guess life took a different in my final year. I had no clue about an exam called CAT (Common Aptitude Test), for me it jus remains a 4-legged creature which comes home and drinks all the milk...... I also had no clue why ppl wrote such an exam..... all the entrance i had heard of till then was jus AIEEE, TNPCEE, IIT-JEE, and the like....went for this coaching class..... cos my mom said so..... she said she saw manager material in me, god knows why!!!! all she said one day was i see u as leading somethin with great confidence, it'd be good if u did an MBA... tht was the first time she had said anythin abt my studies.... until then it had always been my choice......
Anyways, went to these CAT classes, wrote mock-CATS after mock CATS and i mus say, i began enjoyin writin these exams, especially, the logical reasonin and the english parts of it.... yet somewhere i knew i wasnt being serious..... had a deep interest in consumer behaviour, which was subject in graduation..... which i'll write more abt in later blogs......
somewhere deep down me, i knew i wasnt givin it my best shot and i still kept my options open abt wantin to an MSc..... then i figured tht my parents had paid an amount tht was more than my 3 yrs college fee put together jus for my coachin class....... then applications to colleges consumed another lumpsome amount....
Though i still have no clue why they gave me an admission, cos i actually said tht if another college was to offer me admission, i would reject this offer......the day i became actually serious abt MBA was my first day in class, MBA.... i was surrounded by these ppl who knew their stuff..... who knew wat accounts, operations, systems, finance and marketin was....... i was clueless..... i had the only idea os HR cos i thought as a psychology major, thts wat am supposed to be doin....... but no!!!!!! soon i realised tht marketing was where my interest was and more specifically advertising....... towards my second year i became much more serious abt my classes....... took things more seriously and was extremely particular abt wat i did.....

One thing i realised in my shift within these fields is tht........ everyone does this at some point of time or the other...... in a way its good to taste different waters, so tht u know which water suits u the best... i have frnds with clear cut thoughts and decisions on wat they wanna do from the beginnin..hats of them, but its also important to step onto different mats, before u find the right one, tht helps u wipe off the dust.....if i were to start experimenting with my career, i would probably be taking a risky step and a few years down the line, am probably takin a dangerous and unforbidden step........ but then again whos perfect??? lets see wat i think of this blog tomorrow if i ever take a turn in my career again ;)