My Marketing Management class officially comes to an end today…finally. Our marketing plan deliverable came in on time last weekend and we again scored an A…full credit - 100/100 points…although our professor was less drippy with the praise than last time. I’ve discovered that when it comes to school, I’ve reverted back to how I viewed school before beginning my undergrad degree…as an evil entity to overpower and destroy. Failure is not an option and if you’re on my team, you’d better be on board with that philosophy or I may be forced to overpower and destroy you.
Here’s the problem with that strategy though…it defeats the purpose of school which is…as CU has to constantly remind me…to learn. Wait, you mean I’m not supposed to come out of these 12-week classes prepared to run a market research company? I’m not going to be handed a production facility next month when Ops Management comes to an end? Well shucky darn, that changes everything!
School is weird for me, because although I may not be terribly competitive with others, I’m incredibly competitive with myself. I also have astronomically high performance standards for both myself and those around me…so you can imagine the percentage of time I find myself disappointed. Greater than fifty. But, I’m working on that. Having high performance standards is one thing, but having unrealistic goals of perfection is quite another.
Now, I’m focusing on the last four weeks of my Ops Management class…and scheduling for next semester. Looks like I’ll be taking Digital Marketing Strategies, Global Business and…in a week-long mega-intensive intermester class in April…ta da…Financial Management. I’ve been dreading Financial Management…my only hope is to get it all out of the way in a week. Seems like a good use of PTO time, right?
12/11/2007 at 1:36 pm Permalink
I know exactly what you mean about having high standards, yet also trying to make sure they’re realistic. I struggle with that both professionally and personally all the time.