which career should I pursue after my MBA?
I am currently in IT and have great WLB. I work about 37.5 hours a week. I am going my for MBA and I was wondering if I should switch careers or pursue higher level opportunities and gave up my WLB. I get to clock out early. Please serious responses only. TC: 91K WFH everyday
WLB is a God send for IT. If you enjoy your job and can balance it all, I'd say stick with it. I, and probably many others in the field, would take a pay cut if it meant being able to have a good WLB. A lot of places hire top talent with great pay, burn them out, and then look for the next sucker.
Very well said. That's how I view it but every now and again I audit my career and challenge myself because its easy to get really comfortable.
NBA
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You’ll likely get the same return as your mba so why not?
PM roles after MBA are a reasonable option
CEO. Do it.
Based on my experience, don’t expect your career to completely change after you get your MBA. I have no regrets getting my MBA (to compliment my Electrical Engineering), but going into the program I had thoughts of how I’d graduate and get huge pay and responsibility increases and that didn’t occur. For me, the MBA certainly doesn’t hurt, but it’s a measure of willingness to learn vs providing must needed skills to run companies.
thank you for that, may I ask what did you do after you got your mba? change career etc?
MBA from which school?
All jokes aside I recently attended an MBA conference. Like 50+ schools there. Everyone was talking about getting your pay up to $90k with an MBA. I was like wtf, I'm in the wrong place.
Cool story bro…
"Start with the end in mind" The minimum information required to answer your question is - what are your priorities?
+1. OP's post says nothing as to why they are going for an MBA while making 91k in a cushy wlb IT job. What was your plan getting the MBA in the first place? It is usually done to either enhance a career (promotion) or change careers. Especially if truly a top 10 college, you must have a plan to extract ROI from that cost and workload