Out on the career path there was a big thump in the road...Honeywell's project, I'm afraid. In the project description it sounded like that was going to be a winner; rearrange a supply chain, improve the bottom line. Come to find out it was more of a project for their third-party logistics provider and a significant chunk of the project may be devoted to creating a customer-service portal (read: website) for the group. Conversely General Cable emerged as a top project - the team will be three steps from the CEO and have a pretty enormous playing field. They even left behind some samples, so I scooped up 25 feet of premium silver-plated speaker cable.

USAToday ran an encouraging cover today regarding MBA compensation. Apparently MBAs are the "intellectual currency" business crave. What does that even mean? Over 100,000 people got Masters degrees in business administration last year, which leads me to think that there may be some risk of inflation in the "intellectual currency" exchanges of the world. I'm also dubious of the author's survey; 5000+ graduates were surveyed and the first year package average was $106k. How can that be? That's a low number for a tier one school, about right for a tier two, and a homerun for the legion of tier-three grads who make up the vast majority of MBA recipients. I think that these figures need to be age-quantified; a 20-year employee makes more without an MBA than a newbie with one, so they would skew the statistics pretty heavily if represented as a 'new MBA grad.' It's like Mark Twain said: "there's three kinds of lies...lies, damned lies, and statistics."