GMAT followed by MBA or Keep getting certified in AWS

I think ultimately you want to see what comes more natural to you and where you would be more likely to succeed. You need to be super honest with yourself and really look deep down into what makes you thrive and what makes you happy. For some people, they are happy when they can focus on the task and nobody’s distracting them. For others, they want to work on carpentry or woodworking where it’s just them and their project and they can perfect it. Some people thrive being surrounded by other people and some like helping other people and sharing the joy of that help.

You can earn money either way but your best chance to be the best, most successful and likely have the best earning potential is to have the most natural fit with your career. So would you rather be in engineer and spend most of your time in code and go up the engineering ladder? At Amazon, senior engineers are like gods for example. At the same time, there are a lot of the program managers and product managers who work on a variety of things and keep getting changed in and out.

Getting an MBA, would give you a path and a pretty good one to become a product manager at one of the tech companies but do you have to be good in collaborating and working with other people and be a good communicator and a personable person to succeed in progress beyond the first entry points. Otherwise you’ll be stuck at the entry level of a product manager and manage a boring product…

There is the lure of the money but most of your income will not come in your 20s or 30s. Most of your earning potential is actually in your 40s and 50s. It’s hard to think that’s far out but really the best way to get to that spot in the sky in the company corporate ladder as possible is to have a great match of your skills and your job.

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