Praying for Mediocrity

Last December, I graduated from Walsh University with a master’s degree – Marketing MBA.  The program took just a little over two years to complete and was extremely gratifying for the most part.  Multiple people told me during my last semester (including a very inspiring professor) that I was going to miss school as soon as it was over.  I’m most certainly not going to further my education in a doctoral program, so this is it for me.  It’s always crazy to hear how much you will be missing school when it’s so close to your graduation (the same was said after my graduation from Kent State). But after 4 months, truth is – I miss school. The late nights studying, the tedious papers, and long presentations will never be missed.  However, I do miss writing.  Not necessarily trying to find BS to extend my paper from 7 pages to 10, but I miss having others read my thoughts and ideas.  My favorite Benjamin Franklin quote is, “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”  Okay, so that’s the only Benjamin Franklin quote I know, so by default it is my favorite, but it’s a good one nevertheless.

Since I am no longer forced to write lengthy papers about the ethical implications of increasing CEO compensation, I have decided to start a blog.  I will be writing about the four biggest passions in my life: family, sports, music, and marketing.  If you know me, I rarely take anything seriously, which I believe is the key to sanity.  Hopefully this blog will help to satisfy my inner creative and make a few people laugh along the way.  I’m not saying this is going to be great, or even good.  To be honest, I’m just praying for mediocrity.  If you like what you read, please forward it on to others.  If you don’t – just delete me from Facebook or unfollow me on Twitter – I probably deserve it.  Hopefully people will enjoy this.  For those who are reading, please set your expectations incredibly low.  I’m just happy that I no longer have to figure out how the Bangladesh poverty line is affected by interest rate declines in Norway.