two kids' mother's dilemma for MBA

I am a mother with two kids (two years old and a new born in next month) and I have lived and worked in US for five years. I am 34 years old. As I want to change my career from a scientist to a general management or other position, I thought MBA might be an option. My GMAT score is 700 and I got the admission to Temple Fox school, fall, 2008, however, life is not easy for me for these reasons:

1) My mother can only take care of my kids for one year from now on in US, who will take care of them in the year after? Send them back to china again? I cannot bear seperation with my kids.

2) My husband is still in graduate school for his PhD in another city and will look for job early next year nationwide, he has little chance to find a job in my city. Still seperating with him for another three years for the part-time MBA and keep my current position in a different city?  I even hesitate whether I should start taking courses in September as I don't know where I will be in one year later.

Anyway, the problem is how to take care of my kids, at least keep an eye on them, while at the same go for a MBA? I cannot count on my husband for much, as he has his own career goal and have no time to take care of us in the next few years.

I am thinking of applying for CEIBS for the next year, if I get the admission, I might have chance to stay with my kids (my mom and nanny can take care of them, I just keep an eye on them) while go for a MBA.

 If I get CEIBS MBA, is it easy to find a job in USA later? Will studying in CEIBS too busy to have time dealing with two kids? I am a science major and have no business experience at all, moreover, going for a full-time MBA in my husband's future city in US while send the elder kid to daycare might not be financially affordable for me. Can any CDers give me some suggestions for my situation?

Thanks much!

CEIBS MBA vs Temple fox Part-time MBA, which one worth the 30K? Thanks for reply and suggestion.

1. without any business experience, a MBA degree could not help much to find a job after the graduation.

2. CEIBS MBA could not help you more than a US MBA degree in finding jobs in US.

3. it's hard for people over 30 years to switch careers, even with a MBA degree.

yeah. I worked in US for many years too and then I moved to China and worked for some time. I found in China it is very age discriminated.

in the Chinese company I worked in, the average age is 27 for over 70k employee. I am around 30 and I could not see many people older than me. Seems the employer or management team believe only young people could do things and have the ability to learn. Funny though.In America, I saw many people as old as 60 to change career. In China, if you are late twenty or early thirty, they think you are already old.

Now I stayed in Hong Kong, I found most of the bank employee are very young,in their twenties. So I got a conclusion, that juse like Chinese man like to look for much younger wife, the employer like younger people too.

Since in your case, you may return to US after your MBA, just ignore people's input about age. You could have dream no matter your age. Maybe in China and in Hong Kong, you will feel you are ignored somewhat for your age, it doesn't prove that your are not potential.

Give you my support. Btw,I was engineer before, and now I already got admission for MBA program in HK, just pursue what you want.

nice comments

agree

for comments 1, most people come for a MBA program works as scientist or engineer or in other fields, a MBA program definitely will help someone to get a job after graduation, maybe she could not find a job in your city, but she could launch a job in other financial area.

For comments 2, I think it maybe true.

For comments 3, when you hit 30, you will know it is not that tough to switch career, only you have the motivation. I saw nurse who switched to nurse career when she is 40,btw, the starting salary in California is around $80k US dollar. I think when people get older, they are smarter. and they know what they really want. there are many young, aggressive, ambitious people out there, for some of them, the problem is they don't know what they want, they only know what other people want them to be.

Hold fast to your dreams. Otherwise, you woulld regret not to do so when over 60. Your engineer experience is the catalyst changing career rather than obstacle. Those upstairs are too young to understand you. You are right ,"when you hit 30, you will know it is not that tough to switch career".