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Has anyone else had issues in describing to their family that they are doing b-school, regardless of how many uninformed insults are hurled? I've tried calmly explaining the whole thing to my own mother on a number of occasions, but to no avail. I have started calling her less often, as every time I speak to her she attempts to make some witty/insulting remark about the whole thing. Thing is, the remarks aren't all that witty - which is sad as she really tends to be brilliant and hilarious most of the time. She doesn't have any college degree, while I have BS/MS in engineering, and will go back for MBA. She seems to suggest that if I absolutely *MUST* go that the best choice would be to go to the cheapest part-time program available. Since, after all the whole thing is a waste and that way it will cost the least. It is as if she miraculously doesn't understand return on investment all of the sudden
I'm not really looking for advice on talking to my mother - large parts of the above rant was just to get it off my chest.
Am I alone in dealing with annoying/meddling family members in this process?
Has anyone else had issues in describing to their family that they are doing b-school, regardless of how many uninformed insults are hurled? I've tried calmly explaining the whole thing to my own mother on a number of occasions, but to no avail. I have started calling her less often, as every time I speak to her she attempts to make some witty/insulting remark about the whole thing. Thing is, the remarks aren't all that witty - which is sad as she really tends to be brilliant and hilarious most of the time. She doesn't have any college degree, while I have BS/MS in engineering, and will go back for MBA. She seems to suggest that if I absolutely *MUST* go that the best choice would be to go to the cheapest part-time program available. Since, after all the whole thing is a waste and that way it will cost the least. It is as if she miraculously doesn't understand return on investment all of the sudden
I'm not really looking for advice on talking to my mother - large parts of the above rant was just to get it off my chest.
Am I alone in dealing with annoying/meddling family members in this process?
13 Mar 2008, 12:35
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You are not alone. When I first started the process my parents looked at me like I'd decided to join a cult, saying, "Why would you do something like that?" I even got a, "I don't understand. Would you get a degree out of it?" I also got a lot of "This doesn't sound like a very good idea. You know those guys from Enron had gone to business school."
Of course, my parents have no point, and maybe yours does. But in the end I'll regret if I don't go. Once they realized I was going through with it and they could either be with me or by the wayside, they started going along with it a little more (especially after they saw the gender ratios...).
Of course, my parents have no point, and maybe yours does. But in the end I'll regret if I don't go. Once they realized I was going through with it and they could either be with me or by the wayside, they started going along with it a little more (especially after they saw the gender ratios...).
13 Mar 2008, 12:49
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If you aren't afraid of being vulnerable about it, offer her your goals/why MBA essay and ask for her feedback. Maybe reading it will give her confidence in your conviction. I daresay it may even strengthen the trust between you two.
Career goals were never something I sought to share with my parents. (I tend to think of them as old-fashioned, and their advice about as relevant today as disco hotpants and platform shoes. :D) But I surprised myself by sending my essays to my father. It wasn't to get useful feedback, but moreso for his benefit to understand the motivating forces that are driving me to give up a well-paying job with upward mobility, and uprooting myself in order to move to part of the world where I have no experience in... to pursue an MBA.
Your essays will inevitably be very personal. And it would be very difficult for anyone, especially a parent, to stomp on your career aspirations after reading such an exposition. If you aren't afraid to share, maybe this is the way to go. It's also much easier to have someone read a complete development of your thoughts on paper, instead of communicating by conversation where you risk being interrupted or having the subject derailed.
Career goals were never something I sought to share with my parents. (I tend to think of them as old-fashioned, and their advice about as relevant today as disco hotpants and platform shoes. :D) But I surprised myself by sending my essays to my father. It wasn't to get useful feedback, but moreso for his benefit to understand the motivating forces that are driving me to give up a well-paying job with upward mobility, and uprooting myself in order to move to part of the world where I have no experience in... to pursue an MBA.
Your essays will inevitably be very personal. And it would be very difficult for anyone, especially a parent, to stomp on your career aspirations after reading such an exposition. If you aren't afraid to share, maybe this is the way to go. It's also much easier to have someone read a complete development of your thoughts on paper, instead of communicating by conversation where you risk being interrupted or having the subject derailed.
That is exactly where I AM going if I get into either of those schools. 
Maybe she had the same crystal ball that NC gazed into? 
