Does business school suck?

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Speaking as a humanities loser with somewhat tenuous long-term career prospects, business school and an MBA might be a thing for me to do in the near future. But I am notoriously unambitious and uncompetitive, and the thought of rubbing elbows with go-getters and entrepreneurial types. Also, I have zero business cents, though I do have minor interest in math (i.e. would accounting be for me?). Also, I took a GMAT test prep program I downloaded, and aside from the vanilla quantitative/verbal sections, I did terribly at the "data sufficiency" section.

But what I'd really like to do is get into editing/publishing, but I guess that's for another thread.

― c('°c) (Leee), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

can you rephrase this as a joke?

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Do you think business school would teach you how to locate the front entryways of publishers?

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but in the interest of securing financial security (versus doing something I have personal interest in), MBA-ville looks like a quick(ish) way of having an in/progressing through corporate.

― c('°c) (Leee), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Have you had any real jobs? (And work on your homophones/proofreading before you start applications. cents vs sense.)

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yes (company info management), and no, cos you see, it's a pun!

― c('°c) (Leee), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

you don't have any money for school? Student loan debts aren't going to help you.

company info management

What is this? Filing? Seriously I'm not trying to be a smartass but that doesn't parse for me.

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Friday, 18 August 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

MBA/Business School is a great way to amass a large amount of debt while acquiring skills that are likely to be completely useless unless you know of a management job that you can get right out the gates.

If you don't actively pursue a 4.0 GPA or a lot of unpaid get-to-know-the-conglomerate bullshit you can wind up $80,000 in the red with no place to go, just the same as a humanities loser.

if you want to progress through corporate, get a job there first. THEN see what kind of tuition/training programs they have to help you out. Don't blow the next two years of your time and eight years of your money on "looks like a quick(ish)" anything.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

also trust me random managers with MBAs they got because they just wanted "job security" and couldn't figure out how to get employed otherwise are basically bad and hated everywhere, you don't seem like the type that would enjoy having his staff talk shit about him all day every day.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

That's the feeling that I had about MBAs, just not articulated like that. Much obliged, TOMBOT.

― c('°c) (Leee), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

business school was awesome. I loved it. Not really sure why anyone would think the skills are useless, unless of course they are not in an occupation that actually uses those skills.

If it costs you $80K then you are looking at all the wrong programs. If your MBA costs you $80K and you do well in school, then you will graduate with a job. If you can get your employer to pay for at least part of your MBA, you are on the right track.

There is no quick route to success, but certainly an MBA probably buys you at least better fallback than not having one.

― don weiner (don weiner), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

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