Helping impoverished Kurds to start businesses in the Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah might not be everybody’s idea of a relaxing, pre-degree getaway.
But for Aaron Bartnick, a former congressional campaigns manager who worked in Washington before starting an MBA at Oxford’s Saïd Business School last year, his short-term job in Iraq had one big advantage: it provided ample downtime to get back into reading and the right frame of mind for study.
“Sulaymaniyah does not have a big social scene,” Mr Bartnick says. “You just don’t have the distractions that I would have had back in Washington, holding down a full-time job.”
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