My Life Without Law and Order
I considered long and hard before I made up my mind joining an MBA program. Would I be able to make the time commitment the program requires? Just like any ambitious career woman I considered myself being a busy lady already with my work and occasional personal life I had. When I finally started the program I soon had to notice I had predicted the time the study requires incorrectly – it was much more I thought it would be…
This is how my evenings during the weekdays often look like:
6 pm – leave from the office
6:45 pm – at home
6:45 pm to 8:30 pm – sports/dinner/few hugs with the husband
8:30 pm – studying as long as my mind stays clear(ish)
Plus of course the study time in the weekend…
Now let’s think what I needed to give up accommodating my studies… hmmm… what was it? Yes, I know: Law and Order, Cold Case and Missing without a Trace and probably few others which names I have already forgotten.
What did I get in return: I got 34 new friends from my local class and a global network of 106 great people from the partner schools. I can follow the lessons of excellent professors who miraculously can make any topic interesting – even accounting (!), I get loads of new information and learn to see the world and also myself in a whole new way. I started to regularly exercise in order to have energy for the studies, my husband takes care of the housekeeping (groceries, cooking, cleaning, washing, cleaning etc.) and last but definitely not least; about every six weeks I can have nice dinners with my student colleagues filled with intelligent conversations of the learning’s of the day. (psssst… actually we party and have fun like we would be 20 years old, but that is not good to mention at home as my newly established home service level agreements might suffer if my husband would find out the study is not just all hard work 
Today I already wonder how I will ever fill all this time, I found out I have, after the MBA is over (in addition to the inevitable two years long housekeeping shift)? To be honest the 17 months ahead feels already now too short!
Posted by UNC | February 8th, 2012 | No Comments
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