What Matters the Most to You in a Job?

NY Times surveyed MBA Students from top 15 Business Schools about their career choices. The question was asked to identify most important factors when choosing a job. The Top 3 were: Challenging responsibilities, High Compensation, and Work/Life balance. Full Story Link.

That's probably exactly as I had my priorities aligned when I graduated, but after getting my first MBA job, I realized that even though the pay could be good and responsibilities challenging, my idiot boss could turn the whole thing upside down and I could easily hate a job that was still high paying and had plenty of challenges. My conclusion - when we graduate, we feel well "rested" from being fully employed after a year or two of MBA program, which makes us a bit idealistic about our first MBA job, but then reality quickly sinks in as we realize that things are actually more complex.

Good Job hunting to all the graduates!