Getting into journalism after an MBA? Is it worth it?

Yes, says Sidin Vadukut, the managing editor of livemint.com in his witty "Cubiclenama" column in Mint. Here's an excerpt:

First I tried convincing them [management students] by declaring that the trade-offs are totally worth it. Sure, they would make much less money, forfeit expense accounts, give up swanky offices and never be able to buy palatial homes with infinity pools by the time they are 35.

But in return most journalists don’t have to wear suits, ties or closed footwear to work — “You guys can walk into a newsroom right now in those very same clothes and nobody would say a thing! Except you there in the bright orange shorts with yellow flowers. You should go into advertising.”

Also, I told them, journalists attend fewer meetings, freely access Twitter at work, and only use spreadsheets to calculate House Rent Allowance.

As an added bonus, I said, we sometimes go entire weeks without using phrases such as “touch base”, “boil the ocean” and my personal peeve: “let us revert from our end”.

Read the full column here. Make sure you read the concluding paragraph.