Future Plans
Speaking of business school, I’ve decided to get an MBA. I start next fall – I received my acceptance letter last week. Robert Morris, definitely not a top tier school, has a promising looking e-commerce concentration that has a bit of an entrepreneurial focus. I have been torn for years over the decision – I haven’t been able to cost justify the experience, and it hasn’t seemed to be terribly important to my career thus far. However, there are always those occasions when there is an interesting job opportunity, and they want the applicant to have an advanced degree.
That’s probably not a good enough reason. Really, my reason is because of the program itself. It seems like a good opportunity to learn all of those things I didn’t really take seriously in undergrad (marketing and finance), and to meet and network with other like-minded people. Granted, it doesn’t provide the advantages that a name school would provide, but then again, I’m not really interested in a Fortune 500 career – I’ve worked in large companies before, and I didn’t much care for it. The extra cost (CMU costs at least 4 times as much as RMU) is just not justified unless you want to be the CEO of Intel someday.
OK, actually, the real reason why I’m doing it is to keep up with my wife – she already has her master’s degree – she’s a nurse practitioner… J