I'm going entrepreneurial!

As many of you will already know, a large part of any MBA program is the project. Many students spend countless hours applying to big investment banks and enduring round after round of interviews only to be worked to the brink of death within an eight week period as well as find time to squeeze a fifteen thousand word report out of their arses as well.

I have not chosen this route.

"Why!?", you cry, well, I hardly applied for any projects at all now I come to think of it. The reason being that there aren't really any projects in media (my chosen industry) and the thought of working in finance again leaves me with the taste of bile in the the back of my mouth. To be fair, I did have a project lined up but it all fell through due to an administrative cock-up in the course office. The morning I found out it wasn't going ahead the C-word was used repeatedly. It eventually dawned on me that there was no time to find another project with a company and that I would have to resort to the dreaded desk-based project. Now, I've never been much of an academic and researching a business niche really held no interest whatsoever for me, so I have decided to start my own business and build my project around it.

I'm either very brave or very stupid, I suppose time will tell. The annoying thing is that I'll probably be working twice as hard in the next few weeks than those doing projects at investment banks. I guess the joke is on me but hopefully I'll be having the last laugh!