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Not much has been happening. Bought the Kaplan GMAT 800 book, downloaded a ton of notes and questions. It's time to kick up the pace of my GMAT preparations.

After much thought, I don't think I will be taking the new job. Taking into consideration that I intend to dedicate a lot of time into the GMAT and the actual applications, changing jobs now would require me to divert my resources into learning about the new job.

Although I dislike my current job, I have managed to find a routine that will allow me to set aside time for the GMAT prep and applications. In view of the bigger picture, I do not want to have to reorganise my life for the time being.

Thanks to all for your kind wishes. I didn't realise I had comments until I visited my own blog :P

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I have been invited to join an investment bank to do Private Client sales - sales to high networth individuals. Being a sales job, it will be target revenue driven with few (?) opportunities to develop into a more strategic position, withstanding that I don't become the sales director, then my career will forever revolve around closing the next sale.

Honestly speaking, I'm not too comfortable with doing cold hard sales. Yes, I can talk and build the relationship, but I'm horrible at closing the deal or pushing products. It makes me feel funny when I build the relationship only with the intention of chalking up another deal. I would rather build the relationship because I am genuinely interested in the person as a person and not a sales target.

On the other hand, it would be an opportunity to learn new products and skills and have a bit of career progression. I think I shall try and renegotiate the job scope to place emphasis on other areas such as team management and support vs. an out and out sales job.

GMAT is coming along slowly, 30% improvement compared to 5 months ago for my Sentence Correction. I hope this holds up.

In the beginning

So, now that I've selected the school that I want to apply to in 2007, it's just the matter of preparing for the GMAT and completing the applications.

I will have a strict schedule starting 11 April and push myself as hard as I can for the GMAT, targeting an exam at the end of July, slightly after or just before the essay questions for most schools come out.

This will be good. Nothing else matters.

Let's do it.