some thoughts

Sunday, March 05, 2006

MBA or piano?

This certainly cannot be an oft blogged about topic. Should I get an MBA or learn to play the piano? This is the thought I was pondering over Christmas. My wife is working on getting her CGA so as a result - she is spending a lot of time studying and doing courses. I thought I should be doing something productive with my time as well so I considered the piano / MBA option. Originally I sided with the MBA for no good reason. It is more that I believe I could do it and do it well so why not prove it. Of course - who am I proving this to..... I seem too often to set out to prove something when there is no audience present to prove to - but that is an all together different issue. So the MBA option seemed good and I got support from a few friends on the idea but one night while having drinks with another friend, I brought up teh MBA topic and he challenged my thinking on it. Really he just got me more focussed on my passion which is not really anything realted to an MBA. So, in the end, I got a new job to help deal with the passion issue and then picked up a Yamaha keyboard to begin my piano learning journey rather then do an MBA. So far I practiced one night but I am not quite an expert yet. Wondering why this is taking so long.

In the end, if I am 70 and look back on my life, would I say - gee that MBA was the greatest thing I ever did or would I say - I love playing the piano. I believe the latter and am content with my decision. I jsut have to see if I will be able to stick to this.