the post-MBA depression

if there is case of postpartum depression, post-MBA depression should be possible. i guess the recession is something relevant after your quarter life. Back during the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997, I just started in college and it never really affected me and my friends. Earning your keep changes everything. Especially the taxes. I guess I don't have to worry about that since I don't have any taxable wage for now anyway.

Its depressing how the current batch of MBA graduates from AIM are slow in their diffusion back to the employment rat race. As far as I know only 2 of the 30(?) Filipinos have jobs... well 4 were company sponsored so that's 6 out of 30. I guess HR professionals are still drunk from vacationing. Also, it's the first batch of graduates from the 16-month MBA program who graduated in December, while all the previous batches graduated in May. I guess this should have been foreseen by the administration, regardless of the current recession, and measures should have been put in place. Else, why go for a 16 month program if your graduates will be idle for four months anyway.

So the jobhunt continues...

2009

i'm disappointed with the job hits from my MBA degree. but perhaps it's due to the fact that we graduated on Christmas season. i expected more leads and initial interviews. on the other hand, I think the job market is still adjusting and checking out how the economy is gonna perform in 2009. I wont tell much about the details of the year 2008. a lot of articles online and offline have already done that. i will say though that a lot of things happened last year both on the good and the bad extremes. so will 2009 be better? let wait how the economy pick up/slows down this week, since its the first business day of 2009.

i am hopeful though that there can still be jobs worthy of my MBA investment. i'm looking at starting a mini business but i'd rather it be a second stream of cashflow.

a professor of mine advised me to be open to overseas employment but i'm having second thoughts given what i've read that the Singapore economy is shrinking. i'm not too keen on working too far from the philippines.