Day 3 of orientation + new London Business School blogger

This morning we had an introduction to career services (it's never early enough to start wondering about what you want to be when you grow up ;-), which I really liked. Graham Hastie, the manager of Career Services is an allround nice bloke who seems to really know his stuff. I'm overwhelmed and impressed by the amount of resources available to us to help find the internship and then the job we're looking for. I'll be needing all the help and guidance I can get since I don't want to go into consulting and probably i-banking. Strange thing is: I'm actually looking forward to figuring out what I'd like to do and chase it, even though I realise it might be hard work and frustrating at times since I probably won't follow any of the traditional MBA paths.

Second thing on the agenda this morning was a talk by Mohan Mohan, executive in residence at London Business School. He used to work for Proctor and Gamble and his advice can best be classified as how to find out what you want to do with your life. I liked him and the talk he gave. I think MBAs get wrapped up so much sometimes with trying to find that £200,000 pound i-banking or consulting job that we forget what it is that makes our hearts sing. And I am a firm believer that if you want to be succesful in what you do AND live a fulfilling life you need to be doing something that makes your heart sing, at least for a majority of the time you're doing it.

On an London Business School note: there's another LBS 007 blogger on the block, Futureguru who's written a very good post on what Orientation is like. Welcome to the gang FG!