Need to vent

[enginerd2012]

So I went into the dark side..took my GMAT and started taking pre-reqs for the MBA program. Did Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Law, More marketing, Operations, Management and am now 3 classes deep into the actual program.

I hated all the work. I learned a few things that I have already forgotten and will probably never use at work. I feel like I haven't learned anything from my classmates either. I also feel like the pre-reqs pretty much covered all the stuff I am learning in the actual program so I am wasting my time. I have 7-8 classes left and am seriously considering quitting or switching to some online program so I can just get it done.

I wanted to explore the business side to be an "all rounded" individual but I really hate taking these classes. I have been dragging this out quite a bit and now have another year or 1.5 years left.

Not sure if I should continue or just call it quits.

At one point, I wanted a career in "management" but after looking at all the politics and the stress, I have had second thoughts. Life is too short to be a corporate slave.

 

[tygerdawg]

Decide if the value of those studies has any worth to you / your career & personal aspirations. Continue or blow it off.

A BSCE relative of mine picked up a minor-college MBA 30+ years ago. He told me he sailed through it with his eyes closed because it was so easy. He was shocked that his classmates struggled with it. He partnered with a couple of guys and has been running a very successful CE firm since then with steady growth and "Golden Boy" reputation. But he's also very easy going, fun guy and lots of folks want to work in his firm and do business with him. Is he a zillionaire? Doubt it. Is he set comfortably for life? Yep, think so.

On the other hand, me & a lot of folks think that the MBA-think has been distorted into something evil in recent decades. My personal opinion is that un- and under-qualified people seeking MBAs believe that getting the MBA gives them instant managerial powers & cachet (it doesn't). And in modern US business society, it also gives them the license to act like complete jerks in the name of running (ruining?) a business in the name of profit. With all of the attendant "dead bodies" left in their wake because "that's just how business is." One former boss (Accountant-cum-MBA, now company Prez) is like this and deserves nothing less than a thoroughly vicious beating with a knobby stick. Hoooiccccchhhh....ptui. As one of the other lurkers on these forums used to so elegantly put it when discussing MBAs: "not that I am in the least bit bitter." (still cracks me up)

I chose not to pursue MBA, pursued technical master's instead. I listened to older business folks who said they didn't need an MBA, "school of hard knocks," and those types of comments. I did, however, engage in a series of community college classes sanctioned through the American Management Association that resulted in some sort of certificate. Call it "MBA-lite." It was a series of 6-week classes in Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Purchasing, etc. I did not want to be a Finance Guy, but certainly wanted to understand the lingo/terminology/mechanics of those subjects. It has suited me well.

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