I so badly need a breakthrough in my life. I know I have what it takes to accomplish things… and I have accomplished things in the past, but nowadays nobody is giving a hoot or giving me any opportunities to prove myself.

It doesn’t help that professors usually think they are the best around and that nobody think better than they do. My resume didn’t even lift an eyebrow the other day while one of them was interviewing me. It’s totally demoralizing. But well I guess I can console myself by saying academics are mostly people who cannot appreciate practical business experience.

It’s pretty ironic isn’t it? PhDs usually come from purely academic backgrounds – they get their basic degrees, go straight for their Masters and PhDs… and think they can solve the business world’s problems… when they never worked a single day in the real business world. I don’t deny that they can do well in solving quantitative problems and make good suggestions on qualtitative ones, but they often make things out to be too… idealistic. The fact is that business environments are so much more complicated than their research studies and experiments where they attempt to test some variables, keep some as controls, while assuming ‘all others remain constant’.

I think academics can never succeed in becoming problem solvers for businesses – because their research methods are not designed to examine the synergy and interplay of all elements within a particular problem. Of course, whether or not they are able to identify all elements in the first place is also a factor. Plus the fact that their studies are often experimental in nature and involves all sorts of assumptions and limitations.

Actually I’m just stating the obvious isn’t it? If academics are good problem solvers, then how would consulting firms get their businesses?

Anyway, I digressed too much. Just felt like venting my frustrations about academics. Makes me nauseous to think that I may become one of them in future. I’m having second thoughts about going for a PhD now.

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