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Monday, September 28, 2009

Review: A 6-Step Guide to Networking for First Year MBA Students


If you've read my blog from beginning to end you know of my love/hate relationship with networking; its downright schizophrenic. One minute, I'm bemoaning the seeming cronyism of it all; and the next minute, I'm telling you how to do it! Well, get ready to hop back on the roller coaster ride, 'cause. "[]Here [I] go again!" (Reagan, Ronald)... (for the record, I won't be quoting him a whole heck of a lot... so, enjoy it while you can Reaganites).


Anywho, at: Markwinburn's Posterous.com you can find all kinds of really cool posts, but to get to the one that I'm touting today, go to Markwinburn's Posterous.com "A 6-step-guide to Networking for First Year MBAs" . This is a great article, whether you are an MBA candidate; undergraduate; graduate student in a different field; or, even someone who is out of work, just looking for a way back in. Although I hate to admit it... you just have to do this crap... I ... I mean stuff.

When I was in school, there were all sorts of networking events, and I NEVER WENT TO THEM! I hated the fact that all of my school-mates were millionaires' kids, so I didn't want to spend a whole lot of time kissing up to them, or listening to their small-talk.

I also despised the fact that even our professors kissed up to them. (I'm gonna cross my fingers that I haven't told you this story already and press on...)

In the Fall of ... Jiminy Cricket!... I don't know how long ago now... I registered for an International Business course in my program. As usual, for small-sized courses, the first class started with the professor asking everyone to introduce themselves. These thirty-somethings each relayed stories like, "Hi. My name is Joe Millionaire, and I'm the Senior Director at XYZ Very Important Co. I'm here to hone my management & policy skills, and gain a greater expertise in my field... blah, blah, blah... etc., and on and on.... Meanwhile, as a twenty something recent graduate all I could say was something like, "Hi. I'm Jane Low-Life, and I just graduated from a really good college in which you wouldn't be caught dead. I've worked a lot of places, but sorry none of them were consulates, and sorry, I don't have a summer home in Greece, or Nice, or the United Arab Emirates... but don't let that weird you out too much." (O.K., I didn't say anything like that, but that's what I was thinking, in addition to, "Why do you have the job that you have with no graduate education in management? I just saw that job listed, and it specifically stated that you had to have a graduate degree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" *

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A Jab At Work Poetry (Poetry about Work)

“Work” by AJA-B, 08/30/09

The life I live is full of Joy,
But fool of sadness have I been,
If rumblings uttered prove us coy,
Then, truth be told both where, and when,
Was once a pair that teetered then,
O’er brinks or hills,
That they could scarce,
Find liquid, bars of salt, but bills,
And toil, though notice paid none dare’st,
To sweat, and pack, and tape, and wrap,
To call, and quest, rebuffed for cost,
To drive five states, and back, for gas
Traverse, from here to there to drink,
While aching back, and sweat-soaked shirt,
Proved naught the laborers’ worth, but stink,
And why should hecklers, wreckers blurt,
And hurl insults until they hurt,
While hypocrites sit conditioned in,
Till out a pair sent all they’d earned,
To others seeking extra, win,
‘gainst those that taught themselves, and learned,
Volumes, nearly choked and burned,
As plumes of hate, and stacks of smoke,
Sparked flames, which brinksmanship, did stoke,
Hellacious fires that GOD awoke,
& Smote the devils’ flames whose’ fire,
Could not the heights of clouds aspire,
& Up the pair in now a shell,
found seeds to plant that vines did swell,
Fat, filling, fruit and tasty cheer,
Revealing teeth, “from ear to ear,”
Now brimming, happily forgiving, hope,
Refilling cranial stores to find,
Surviving, counts for little more than sustaining life, and wasting time.
…
Digressing now though more is there,
I advise you work, but ne’er care,
Hard work, and success are not the same,
But without the first you’ll reap the blame,
For being weak, and seeming lame,
To end I wish you all the best,
Catharsis exhausts, I needs must rest,
Good luck, “You’re hired” I hope you’ll find,
To ease your cares, and soothe your mind.

© 2009 AJA-B

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