The xx-year Itch

It's Christmas here in Munich (actually everywhere). Well it is my first Christmas in a foreign nation and I have mixed feelings. This is the time when all the people try to meet up their family members and I guess it is a very personal time for them. But the whole city is decked up in the spirit of Christmas.
When I am sitting at home doing my 'musings', I cant help thinking about India and how the family tradition of India is so much stronger. In some ways, I do miss India

I was going through some of my old forwards and came upon 2 articles of similar themes. It's about the 'itch' MBAs typically (actually not just MBAs) feel after sometime in their corporate jobs. You know, the inevitable question 'What are you doing with your life?'. Is your life limited to ensuring that your company delivers on its promise to customers (taking the marketing lingo). Is that all you are capable of?

One of the articles was written by an IIMA alumnus who supposedly sat out of the placement process and started a teen magazine. Everytime I hear about somebody trying to make out on their own, I feel a lot of admiration for them. I guess this is all part of the itch that I have already started to have. I am sure most of us are in the same boat but just dont know what to do about this 'inner voice'.

I dont know whether I will have the guts to listen to my inner voice and do something so drastically different. I find that people typically tend to get bogged down in the act of 'existing' that they forget to 'live'.

I would like to read the book 'What should I do with my Life?' by Po Bronson. This is supposed to be dealing with this subject of ordinary people who have dealt with this 'itch' in their own ways. They are not the 'inspirational' CEOs who dropped out of college but ordinary folks like you and me who were very much a part of the 'Corporate Matrix'.