TMMBA Week in the Life: David Ginsberg, Day 1

David Ginsberg, TMMBA Student, Class of 2014

Hi, welcome to day one of A Week in the Life, which is designed to give a perspective on what it’s like to be a student in the University of Washington TMMBA Program. I suppose an introduction is in order: I’m David Ginsberg, I’m a member of Class 13 (which means I’m a member of the 13th class, we actually graduate in June 2014). I’m a single parent with 11 year-old twins, just started a new job at Tableau Software a month ago (through connections made at a TMMBA Career Mixer, how cool is that!?) and celebrated my 49th birthday at the end of October.

Monday started out beautiful, especially for November in Seattle. I started the day by taking a walk around the pond in my neighborhood as the sun rose:

The morning commute was especially light due to Veterans Day (thank you once again Veterans!), and I was at work before 7AM. The days go quickly at Tableau, I started with coffee with my boss, met with our Senior Director for a high-level whiteboard session for a new initiative I’m taking on. Before I knew it the work day was over & I was on my way home to my kids and schoolwork.

Speaking of schoolwork, this turns out to be the busiest week in the quarter. On our plates for this week: a midterm for Managerial Accounting (this took me about 9 hours this weekend), two case studies also for Managerial Accounting, an individual case study and a group case study for Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, a problem set for Operations & Supply Chain Management and oh some reading too – 5 textbook chapters and half a dozen articles from HBR and others sources.

So far I’ve completed the midterm and the 2 case studies for Managerial Accounting, and about half of the reading. Please stay tuned as we continue this experiment in sleep deprivation!

For dinner the kids and I went out to Chaco Canyon for some healthy food for busy people and then watched an episode of Once Upon a Time while I read a couple case studies.

Thanks for tuning in, more to come as the saga continues on Tuesday.