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Finishing your MBA studies can be a time of stress as well as of success. I was talking to a condidate for a job that I am recruiting for, who finished his MBA last year. He worked really had during his period of study and had a degree of success that was greater than he had expected. However, when he finished he felt burnt out, and could not concentrate on finding the job that he wanted.

He sensibly decided not to worry too much, and took a job to fill in the time while he recovered. Now he is looking for the right job without having to hurry, and with the security of having completed his studies he finds that the jobs that he is attracted to are rather different from those he thought he would want during his MBA study period.

I didn't offer him the job - he wasn't right for it, and he also thought that he would not fit in. However, if the right vacancy came along I would welcome him onto the team - he is educated, knowledgeable and he knows both what he wants and what is good for him.

I'm fed up about writing about MBAs. There are lost of exciting things to say about MBAs, but today I just don't want to say them. I've been working hard, it's rainy and windy, the yard needs weeding and I haven't done the ironing. So I'm rebelling about everything, and just want to do what I want to do.

So I'll talk about MBAs tomorrow, and give you lots of important facts and reasons why you need an MBA in your life. But not today.

I've been taking part in a workshop that looks at the cost of education to the student. For many years, most higher education has charged some fees, but these are often (but not always) subsidized. A constant exeption to this rule is the MBA. MBAs are charged at full cost to the student. The logic behind this is that this is professional studies, aimed at increasing the effectiveness of managers and therefore their value in the market. They will therefore be able to afford to find the fees for this program.

I'm not entirely sure that this is logic, as many other graduate programs increase the value of thepeople who study them. However, it is true that most MBA students are already working in jobs that have reasonable salaries, and are motivated to improve themselves. So they can find the fees necessary to study.