MB-Eish: Part 10: 23

**"Eish" is a South African slang term expressing surprise, dismay, anger or frustration.** 

As I mentioned two years ago, I have joined the droves of engineers who have sold out to the dark side: Banking (and more recently, the elite league of the dark side: Asset Management). To make myself more comfortable in my new, murky surrounds I have decided to do an MBA part-time. This is the tenth in a series of posts about my MBA experience.

I've been up since 4am. 

I had a Friday evening pre-thesis time "nap" which turned into a full on sleep-binge. Fortunately I do not have a sleep hangover. But needless to say I slept through blogging time. And thesis time. And dinner time, sort of. The other half of my thai take-out is ice-cold on the kitchen counter.

This is not good. This is sooooo not good.


I was never any good at mental arithmetic, but I've checked my calculations on my calculator and it seems I have at least 240 hours worth of data gathering to do if I am to do what I've described in my research proposal. Then I would still have to analyze and write some findings worthy of a first class pass. As I have only 23 days left, this implies that I need to spend all my waking hours working on my thesis. 





Just one problem: I have a day job.

 The companies I cover are reporting annual results and working late is highly necessary in the next two weeks. I knew this two months ago when I drew up my thesis project plan. It's in Excel. It has pretty colours. It means jack shit at this point.

I sense a scope change on the horizon. Bugger!... and other profanities. 23 days to go. 




Psssst!

This was going to be my "24" picture. I slept instead of blogging, but it's too pretty to not go up. Back to work for me then...