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09-02-2005, 02:47 AM
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1) What are you objective for getting an MBA? Make more money? Easier to get management level jobs? Network and alumni support? Just chasing after the 3 letters after your name? (honestly that was something I thought about!) 2) Cost/Opportunity Cost vs Benefits The amount of money you spend to get the MBA- Will it reap greater rewards monetarily. The time and money you put into it.. will it really also make life easier/better? Benefit > Cost? Those are some things to think about and SithJedi can probably also chime in since he's a Stanford MBA grad... Just a little background.. I was accepted both into Haas School of Business (berkeley) and also the Santa Clara Univ MBA and law combined program and decide not to go many moons ago. I also had my CFA already at the time. My reasoning was that: 1) getting my MBA really at that point was not going to get me any more $$ than what I was making or will be making at the end of the program. 2) The cost was prohibitively high ($50-60K/year) 3) although the alumni network is great, I had other venues where I could network just as well. 4) The curriculum was nice but at the end of day, you can gather the tools yourself through research and the knowledge gain is predominantly IMHO common sense. Everybody has different objectives. Your job should you decide to accept it, is to allign your objectives with the appropriate resources to get to a certain end. Good luck bro! Last edited by SANguru; 09-02-2005 at 02:55 AM. 
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#12
09-02-2005, 07:28 AM
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What great, well-thought out responses. It is very much appreciated.
The main reason I want a graduate degree is because I am reaching both an earnings and responsibility ceiling in my field. Challenges are becoming more difficult to encounter, and my job is becoming a little bland. I am not in business now (technical and corporate writer), but I'm thinking of an MBA to hopefully help me advance my career. Admittedly, though, I'm not sure what I'd like to do. I'm told an MBA is not where you go to "find yourself," and I understand that. I just know that without additional training/schooling, I won't advance much more... Juan
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09-02-2005, 03:04 PM
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I have spent the last 23 years in tech jobs. I have both a technical and business degrees and I honestly could not tell you that either has made the difference in an interview situation (at least not since I graduated way back when.)
I have helped many co-workers and freinds that have toppoed out by advising them to look horizontally from thier current job and find a parallel path. Often in the technical trades that means getting a position that is more customer-facing. That can mean training, systems engineering, systems analysts (did I just show my age), or even sales. These positions can leverage a lot of you technical savvy, but put you in a position with much more upside. An MBA cannot give you the pratical expereince that these postionins look for. This may be outside your comfort zone, but take the risk and sell yourself as the pefect candidate for one of these other jobs.
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09-02-2005, 03:12 PM
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