Mbas with a Difference ; These Are People Who Turned Their Backs On Successful and Cosy Corporate Careers to Chart Out Their Own Future.

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Giving up well-paying jobs isn't always easy, for apart from the prospects of financial insecurity, it may entail a social cost: one may get branded as crazy! Yet, there have always been people who have ignored the risks and dumped great jobs to pursue "more meaningful" careers. The trend of switching careers exists across all major professions, and MBAs are not immune from it. And the trend is likely to get more pronounced as the economy expands and the society sheds its preference for "service" and learns to respect entrepreneurship and other forms of engagements.

People will always have their own reasons for giving up attractive careers and job prospects: while some may do it for the sake of "doing something different" or "more meaningful", others do it because they find a regular corporate job lacking heart or simply because they think "there is more to life than just work". Among various professions, there is one major difference though: MBAs are better trained to cope with career changes than others, as, after all, B-schools basically teach skills to lead people and run enterprises effectively. Here, we briefly chronicle the cases of five MBAs who chucked cosy jobs to start their own thing. Read on:

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Mbas with a Difference ; These Are People Who Turned Their Backs On Successful and Cosy Corporate Careers to Chart Out Their Own Future.

Arun Pai

Founder/BangaloreWALKS

Arun Pai has not had a sunday off in the last two-and-a-half years. It's not because he is working too hard but simply because he is in love with what he is doing. "I am a tour guide out and out," says the IIM-B alumnus from the 1993 batch. Just in case you are wondering what Pai does for a living, he runs Bangalorewalks, which, as the site suggests, is all about history, culture and discovery by walk.

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