Professional Development and Ethics

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ETHICS

Reflective Essay
I enrolled myself in the MBA program to understand business knowledge and change my
career path. Previously I was enrolled in the Engineering program of the University of Alberta.
Though I was fascinated by what the course had to offer I knew that opportunities were limited
in the field that I was pursuing. Research in the field of electromagnetic induction was a prospect
I looked forward to, but after budget cuts and hiring freezes, I perceived that for me this field
was a dead end and I decided that changing my field of expertise will be the only way to explore
new opportunities. Being an entitled millennial I knew what the future held for me; a dead end
job with 35 easy weekly desk hours making $50,000 a year. I reviled this prospect and decided
that it wasn't going to be enough for me. I started a freelance writing career and began working
for an essay writing website to sustain myself. I began writing about my Ideas on money and
began seeing over 1000 visitors per day on my website. This small career brought many
opportunities to my doorstep but I was determined that I was destined for something more. One
particular assignment that I wrote for some anonymous student was about how to create a
sustainable business out of scratch. Researching for content I found that my brain was
captivating ideas that I knew might have had substance but I could not have been sure if I did not
gather more knowledge on this particular subject. That was the turning point I was looking for
and decided that business was what I was destined for. Studying business would provide me with
opportunities for a limitless future.
I enrolled in this full-time MBA program and was ardent about the fact that this was my
calling. Turns out like the majority of confused pseudo-liberals out there I was confused and
dramatically wrong. I did not understand half the course that was taught in the first year and the
other half which I could understand; my liberal post 20th century mind could not identify with. I
appeared for a semester exam with a heavy heart which was repeatedly blaspheming. For me that
was one of the reason I was severely self-sabotaging. The first year flew by while I dwell in self-
crucifixion trying to justify what my liberally conservative mind told me was completely against
ethics. The questions that haunted me were somewhat like this; why would someone providing
twice or even thrice the labor than a management employee would earn so less? Less than an
executive sitting in a cushy chair attending nothing but meetings and fly on jets that were fruits
of a worker’s labour. My mind dwelled on the ethics of business management and that is where I