Finalizing Tickets before Visa

Well, Aug. is the hottest flight month in the whole year to US. All Northwest Airline's tickets were already sold out. I can only choose American Airlines now. Besides, tickets have to be issue these two or three days; otherwise, travel agency can never guarantee the availability.

On the other side of the earth, FBI must be checking my fingerprints. Not sure when they will feedback their reports back the consulate section here, but I'm expecting to receive their notification at mid next week. -- one more week to go.

It's a quite risky move ----800 bucks!! If I missed the visa, I then that ticket is worse than a piece of letter paper.

95% confidence I will have the Visa!

Go Blue!!

Flight Ticket Booking

I called the travel agency that almost all my other Ross 08 students choose to book the tickets from my country to Detroit. Five days past, I called up them again and got the feedback of "not getting the tickets yet". After August 10th, there are flocks of people flooding into US for study or for business. I seems that it will be very difficult to get the tickets. Bless me God. Come on, my ticket lady, do not let me down.

More On Consulting

Before I have the opportunity to go through the wetfeet guide for Management Consulting, I began to ask myself: Is management consulting the right career choice for me? Will I like it? How big the chance will be for me to get into the top consulting companies such as McKinsey, BCG and Bain, after my Ross MBA? Do I have all the skills or have the innate talents to do the consulting job?

I did the famous-in-MBA-arena careerleader assessment. The results showed that I'm most interested in creative production and Conseling & Mentoring. Management Consulting would be a moderately good match for me, rather than a Very Good match. As careerleader itself disclaims, it is for our reference ONLY. Whoever take the assessment should still know the confinement of the assessment, though It's a good tool, or arguablely the best assessment tool of its kind.

I know I will choose Management Consulting. I simply love it. As I know by myself and by the career leader assessment, I like intellectual challenge and variety. Consulting is the industry where I can work with the smartest people, meeting with new people as new project launchs, crack on diversified business problems. Plus, conceptual thinking and theory development, which are preferred in consulting work, are also of my interests.

I will do consulting for some years, but not for the rest of my life because of the long hour working stress and no decision making. But consulting will put me in a very good position to move to industry or to start up my own company! The experience will further shapen my smart brain, and bring me the inside information about certain industry, the practical advance business insight and of course network.This is called "Positioning", right? And I value it alot!

Ready for Consulting, Yes!
Investment banking? No! But I will learn more about finance during the upcoming two years MBA in Ross. I need that for my consulting job. Kaka!

Blogging @ Workplace

Blogging at workplace during the work time definitely will facilitat your employer to get you a pink slip. I read about a blog from a Harvard MBA student talking about the sack of a HBS employee. The reason she got sacked is not only because she post blogs at workplace, but imply some bad words on her soem of her colleagues names she had problem with.

For me, that's okay. No. 1 my I never let the real names out in my blog --- they got nicknames only meaningful to me. No.2, I already submitted my resignation letter to my "acting" boss and HR director.

Today is a break for my knoweledge transfer training, so I spare most of my time to read the wetfeet guide on Investment banking and management consulting, the top top desirable two industries that most of MBA would pursue, of course, I'm one of them.

It seems to me that WetFeet publishes a better industry guide than Vault, the other veteran in career advising service. This possibly contributes to Wetfeet's gaining popularity nowabdays in bschools.

P.S. blogcn.com is a site for Chinese bloggers. So it doesn't looks good for blogs written in English. Sign~~~