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Mgmt Consulting in general |
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Advice |
| Date Posted: |
06/23/2001 |
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Thanks for your replies, folks.
I don't plan on ever going back to get an MBA unless my employer tells me to do so. I went to a college with a top 3 MBA program, and I cannot foresee myself going back to someplace like that unless it is for a practical purpose. The reason for this is that I believe an MBA to be completely and utterly worthless because I will learn absolutely nothing that I do not already know....it's like a two year vacation.
This is a pretty unfortunate situation, because it seems to imply that whatever job one accepts coming out of school determines what you will be doing for the rest of your life, unless of course you decide to return to school.
School or surfboards? I think it will be surfboards. See you on the beach.
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Not getting an MBA is not a sin, and it might be the best course of action for you. If you can get to where you want to without one, you are all set. If this is the case, then an MBA isn't worth a damn for you.
However, saying that an MBA is "completely and utterly worthless because I will learn absolutely nothing that I do not already know" has to be one of the most self-destructive and narrow-minded statements I have heard on this board. At the very least, a good MBA program will show you that you really don't know much at all. Trust me, a few years out of college, you know bupkus, zip, nada, picas. You might not even know how little you know!
Furthermore, a good program will give you skills to manage and harness that knowledge that you do not possess to your advantage.
It can be indeed a two year vacation. In my case it was definitely a two-year vacation. But I learned shitloads, met some worthwhile and interesting people, and it was worth every penny I paid (and I was a bundle, I lived it up as if I had the job I'd get after the MBA), and more. Take it from an MIT PhD who went to HBS when he was almost 30.
But your mileage may vary.
Cheers,
Yabai
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