看来我真的要放弃mba了

hissom

从去年开始准备，本来打算找不着工作就去读个书，中间工作变动一堆事儿放弃申请了，今年又折腾换了个工作，对新的工作了解越多挺喜欢的，觉得好像没有必要申请了，两年的cost opportunity还是挺大的。我新公司老板就比我大一岁，penn的under一路狂飙上来，身边的牛人都跟我说没啥必要读，赶紧工作攒经验，nyc, boston又没什么one yr program，看来我真是要含泪告别enjoy the school life once more的梦想了。不过在这里得到很多inspiration还认识不少有理想的朋友很好。不知板上的re girl和1Mhf那哥们还去读吗都？

dada1023

楼主在什么公司啊，我也很纠结，一年了。本身工作很受老板器重，而且已经安排我去Munich去工作一段时间，纠结阿

farbecy

Lz你想清楚吧
换一个什么洋的工作，读一个什么书都不是目的，只是一种途径
关键市你想要什么要的生活，成为什么样的人
然后要达到你的目标需要做什么

USA2009

有好工作先好好干吧。。

吉麦特小姐

LZ心态不对哦.

luzhaolan

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从去年开始准备，本来打算找不着工作就去读个书，中间工作变动一堆事儿放弃申请了，今年又折腾换了个工作，对新的工作了解越多挺喜欢的，觉得好像没有必要申请了，两年的cost opportunity还是挺大的。我新公司老板就比我大一岁，penn的under一路狂飙上来，身边的牛人都跟我说没啥必要读，赶紧工作攒经验，nyc, boston又没什么one yr program，看来我真是要含泪告别enjoy the school life once more的梦想了。不过在这里得到很多inspiration还认识不少有理想的朋友很好。不知板上的re girl和1Mhf那哥们还去读吗都？

-- by 会员 hissom (2010/5/11 7:12:16)

Dont sound like u need a MBA coz u dont like ur work, or u want a MBA just u feel like or friends around all try to talk u into.
Advices and opinions from others sure are important, but u will get overwhelmed by too much opinions coz there always will be two sides of the story, but getting to know urself better and doing ur own homework for business schools are the top two on ur to do list if u still dream about the MBA and life in U.S.  

Btw, USC Marshall School of Business has a 1-yr program called "IBEAR" (International Business Education And Research), and more than 80% enrollers come from international background, they even offer scholarship, bar is not high, get ur G over just 660 and u probably would get a half scholarship.

MBAAdventure

http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/04/read-this-before-getting-an-mba-degree.html

Read This Before Getting an MBA Degree
by Tim Berry on April 2, 2010


Here I am, father of five grown-up children, 37 to 22 years old, all of them working in small high-tech companies, all of them college grads, two of them with graduate degrees. And, while my MBA studies were exactly what I wanted, and worked great for me, not one of my five kids has a business degree, much less an MBA. Yesterday somebody asked me why that is. This post is my response.

1. Don’t do it for the money

Search Google for Is an MBA degree worth it? and you’ll find lots of people showing that the average incremental income linked to an MBA degree doesn’t compensate for the expense plus the lost income for two years. They’ll use buzzwords like opportunity cost. Ironically, I’m sure my MBA degree paid for itself in money terms many times over, but the analysis seems to indicate I’m the exception, not the rule.

So why do it (and if you have to ask, that’s a bad sign)?  You do it because you want to learn about business: entrepreneurship, marketing, finance, operations, strategy, management, planning, and so forth.

2. Don’t do it when you’re on the way up

Don’t ever quit an exciting new job to go get an MBA degree. Do quit a boring job or one you’ve mastered so much you’re not learning any more. Do use an MBA effort as a catalyst to change locations, the life you’re living, your business interests. Don’t do it when times are good.

3. Don’t do it if you hate school

If getting your undergrad degree was a long hard haul; if you don’t like school or classes or homework or teachers; then you’re going to hate the MBA program. You know who you are: some people like school, and some don’t. If you don’t like school, even if you successfully dragged yourself through it because you’ve got good discipline and you’re highly motivated, then you’re going to hate the MBA classes. And that’s hell. That wasn’t my case. I’d grown up (finally) when I went back to school.

4. Do it at the best school you can get into

Listen carefully for a while and you’ll start to hear people saying so-and-so is “Harvard MBA” or “Stanford MBA” or “Wharton MBA” and so on, in a way that changes the title to incorporate the school name. Northwestern also works for that, Duke, Babson, and for sure a few others (and I apologize for leaving them out). I have to recognize that this is easier said than done, because they are tough with admissions and expensive, but there is a difference between an MBA from one of these name schools and the MBA from one of the others. Even that return-on-investment analysis that I brought up in point 1 above looks much better when it’s an MBA from a name school.

5. Don’t do it if you can’t afford it

My wife and I worked my way through. I didn’t have scholarship or family money. I worked a lot at consulting while studying full time. We ended up with a lot of debt. But in the end, we were able to afford it. It was a lot cheaper back in 1979. If you can’t make the money side of it work, if it’s going to be two years of financial hell, don’t do it.

6. Don’t sacrifice a lifelong relationship for it

There’s a catch 22 problem here: first you have to say, if it’s a matter of either your marriage (or a lifetime couple relationship) or your MBA degree, forget the MBA. Lifetime relationships are way more important. But the catch is: in a healthy relationship each person makes the other one better. When I quit a job to get an MBA my wife encouraged me. “Let’s take the risk,” she said, “if we fail we fail together.” We’re still married. If you’re married or in a real long-term relationship, and your spouse, partner, or significant other doesn’t like the idea, it could easily destroy your relationship. That’s too big a sacrifice.

And be honest with yourself on this point too: if you really want it and the boyfriend or girlfriend doesn’t care enough about what you want, realize it’s a bad relationship anyhow, one person pulling the other down, then go get the MBA anyhow. Meet somebody new.

Yeah, I know, that last bit has too much paradox.

kenmcqueen

太ironic了。。我觉得楼主可能是因为现实和梦想在犹豫，是那一生追求的梦想，不虚此生的梦想，不过有时候用点阿q的精神是不是好点呢 ：）

hazy_yoo

LZ这心态就感觉是一姑娘,自己觉得自己挺美的,对着别人诉苦说身边吧,有一个有钱男人哭着喊着要和自己结婚,但是吧,自己其实挺喜欢以前交往过的一个穷小子. 哎,究竟是选有钱男人呢还是选穷小子呢?这真是个难题啊!

kenmcqueen

读duke的ccmba 好么？事业好了 文凭就不是那么重要了 不过有一个总是好事情吧 愚见 请指教