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03 May 2022, 11:17
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Due to some personal and visa issues, I'm considering doing a Wharton MBA while continuing with my full-time job. I work in technology in CA but my work is remote. I was thinking of leveraging the time difference and my remote work opportunity to work full-time from Philadelphia. I understand that this situation is not ideal and has many downsides to it such as:
1. Less time for networking
2. Likely I won't be involved in anything other than the classes
3. Probably performance at work will drop.. etc.
On the upsides:
1. I won't have to worry about visa. This way I will probably get a green card in 1.5 yrs. Otherwise, I might to defer my admission by a year or two.
2. I do want to stay in tech and with my current job, I won't have to worry about finding an internship - which will save me some time as compared to others.
3. Finally, I won't have to worry about loans. With my current salary, I'll be able to pay off my MBA easily.
I've heard that a lot of folks do part-time work in their second year but haven't heard of anyone doing this for the first year. Even though the full class schedule for next semester is not available, I think I could try to make my classes morning heavy, focusing on my full-time job in the afternoon/evening.
Are there aspects (group studies, mandatory events etc.) that I'm missing in this whole equation? What I would like to know is if something like this is even possible or someone has done something similar?
1. Less time for networking
2. Likely I won't be involved in anything other than the classes
3. Probably performance at work will drop.. etc.
On the upsides:
1. I won't have to worry about visa. This way I will probably get a green card in 1.5 yrs. Otherwise, I might to defer my admission by a year or two.
2. I do want to stay in tech and with my current job, I won't have to worry about finding an internship - which will save me some time as compared to others.
3. Finally, I won't have to worry about loans. With my current salary, I'll be able to pay off my MBA easily.
I've heard that a lot of folks do part-time work in their second year but haven't heard of anyone doing this for the first year. Even though the full class schedule for next semester is not available, I think I could try to make my classes morning heavy, focusing on my full-time job in the afternoon/evening.
Are there aspects (group studies, mandatory events etc.) that I'm missing in this whole equation? What I would like to know is if something like this is even possible or someone has done something similar?
03 May 2022, 11:34
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Hi! Good to hear from you again 
This question comes up from time to time and usually at least one or two people per year try to pull off doing full-time school and full-time work at the same time. This has been more of an interesting question during pandemic when you actually can work remotely.
Frankly, it’s not really sustainable over an extended period of time. Most business school students live on about five hours of sleep in three month increments until they get a break and then they sleep through it and then they go back to sleeping five hours a day for another three months. A better bat would be going after an executive or a part-time program which is designed to accommodate schedules like that it does not have as intensive of a recruiting component in it.
Interest of trade offs and if you had to do this, to my knowledge nobody has actually pulled this off or managed to do it but as they say anything is possible 🤷♂️ So in case you do decide to pull it off, here’s some of the challenges you face:
1. Your class schedule is set for you for the first semester or quarter or trimester. So the first two months are basically set although you will be able to maybe argue and shift your classes a bit around. You can expect to have four classes three hours each during the week with Friday off.
2. You can also expect the beginning of your school to do an offsite or a trip that would probably take a week out of your work schedule which you can take vacation for.
3. You will have a meaningful amount of homework but more importantly team projects that will require you to meet and engage with your team. That will impact your reputation in the program if you’re not pulling your fair share of weight. And it’s not that the team projects are difficult. Anyone could probably accomplish it in one hour but when it’s done as a team, it takes three hours.
4. Let’s assume you only have to work 4-6 hours a day during the class days and 10 hours on Friday. This pretty much kills all of your available time for personal development, research, recruiting, networking, coffee chats, and any kind of long-term career groundwork.
Many business school students are poor. Anyone can use extra money and many attempts or try to do a bit of work on the side during business school. A bit of consulting for your old boss or a bit of admission consulting or GMAT tutoring or whatever. It helps to get a bit of extra money for groceries or the things but any hours you work as a tutor, you’re robbing yourself an hour of personal development time or an hour off networking time. It’s possible you have your internship lined up and you have your plans for the future lined up so you don’t need to spend as much time on recruiting and sending resumes out and filling out other things are but then the question is why even bother with the MBA if you have everything already lined up.
5. How are you planning to do an internship? 😬 this is usually a required component of the program. Though I have not heard of anyone actually getting expelled, they’re usually pretty serious about scaring you.
6. You will miss out the fun in the joy of the program by having to skip pretty much all of the recruiting events and trips and evenings out and meeting friends and people. It will be fairly self isolating and probably miserable in the long run since you’ll be isolating people and they will equally be not bothering with you.
I don’t want to say that it cannot be done. Perhaps you may be one of those people who is fueled and gets stronger when somebody tells them that it cannot be done in which case I’m happy to tell you that however, you will miss out on a lot of the value of the business degree and I understand why you were making this decision and wondering about it. It would be challenging to restart the green card process and it would be wasteful to abandon it at this point. I think I’m more sensible approach would be to perhaps explore transferring to the Wharton executive program? Or looking at the Berkeley program. If you were planning to stay with your current employer in the immediate aftermath of graduating, evening or executive programs are a great alternative to a full-time program. The main value of the full-time program is the fact that it’s full-time and you can do an internship and then you can recruit for a new job….
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This question comes up from time to time and usually at least one or two people per year try to pull off doing full-time school and full-time work at the same time. This has been more of an interesting question during pandemic when you actually can work remotely.
Frankly, it’s not really sustainable over an extended period of time. Most business school students live on about five hours of sleep in three month increments until they get a break and then they sleep through it and then they go back to sleeping five hours a day for another three months. A better bat would be going after an executive or a part-time program which is designed to accommodate schedules like that it does not have as intensive of a recruiting component in it.
Interest of trade offs and if you had to do this, to my knowledge nobody has actually pulled this off or managed to do it but as they say anything is possible 🤷♂️ So in case you do decide to pull it off, here’s some of the challenges you face:
1. Your class schedule is set for you for the first semester or quarter or trimester. So the first two months are basically set although you will be able to maybe argue and shift your classes a bit around. You can expect to have four classes three hours each during the week with Friday off.
2. You can also expect the beginning of your school to do an offsite or a trip that would probably take a week out of your work schedule which you can take vacation for.
3. You will have a meaningful amount of homework but more importantly team projects that will require you to meet and engage with your team. That will impact your reputation in the program if you’re not pulling your fair share of weight. And it’s not that the team projects are difficult. Anyone could probably accomplish it in one hour but when it’s done as a team, it takes three hours.
4. Let’s assume you only have to work 4-6 hours a day during the class days and 10 hours on Friday. This pretty much kills all of your available time for personal development, research, recruiting, networking, coffee chats, and any kind of long-term career groundwork.
Many business school students are poor. Anyone can use extra money and many attempts or try to do a bit of work on the side during business school. A bit of consulting for your old boss or a bit of admission consulting or GMAT tutoring or whatever. It helps to get a bit of extra money for groceries or the things but any hours you work as a tutor, you’re robbing yourself an hour of personal development time or an hour off networking time. It’s possible you have your internship lined up and you have your plans for the future lined up so you don’t need to spend as much time on recruiting and sending resumes out and filling out other things are but then the question is why even bother with the MBA if you have everything already lined up.
5. How are you planning to do an internship? 😬 this is usually a required component of the program. Though I have not heard of anyone actually getting expelled, they’re usually pretty serious about scaring you.
6. You will miss out the fun in the joy of the program by having to skip pretty much all of the recruiting events and trips and evenings out and meeting friends and people. It will be fairly self isolating and probably miserable in the long run since you’ll be isolating people and they will equally be not bothering with you.
I don’t want to say that it cannot be done. Perhaps you may be one of those people who is fueled and gets stronger when somebody tells them that it cannot be done in which case I’m happy to tell you that
however, you will miss out on a lot of the value of the business degree and I understand why you were making this decision and wondering about it. It would be challenging to restart the green card process and it would be wasteful to abandon it at this point. I think I’m more sensible approach would be to perhaps explore transferring to the Wharton executive program? Or looking at the Berkeley program. If you were planning to stay with your current employer in the immediate aftermath of graduating, evening or executive programs are a great alternative to a full-time program. The main value of the full-time program is the fact that it’s full-time and you can do an internship and then you can recruit for a new job….Posted from my mobile device
03 May 2022, 22:44
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somerandomperson
Due to some personal and visa issues, I'm considering doing a Wharton MBA while continuing with my full-time job. I work in technology in CA but my work is remote. I was thinking of leveraging the time difference and my remote work opportunity to work full-time from Philadelphia. I understand that this situation is not ideal and has many downsides to it such as:
1. Less time for networking
2. Likely I won't be involved in anything other than the classes
3. Probably performance at work will drop.. etc.
On the upsides:
1. I won't have to worry about visa. This way I will probably get a green card in 1.5 yrs. Otherwise, I might to defer my admission by a year or two.
2. I do want to stay in tech and with my current job, I won't have to worry about finding an internship - which will save me some time as compared to others.
3. Finally, I won't have to worry about loans. With my current salary, I'll be able to pay off my MBA easily.
I've heard that a lot of folks do part-time work in their second year but haven't heard of anyone doing this for the first year. Even though the full class schedule for next semester is not available, I think I could try to make my classes morning heavy, focusing on my full-time job in the afternoon/evening.
Are there aspects (group studies, mandatory events etc.) that I'm missing in this whole equation? What I would like to know is if something like this is even possible or someone has done something similar?
1. Less time for networking
2. Likely I won't be involved in anything other than the classes
3. Probably performance at work will drop.. etc.
On the upsides:
1. I won't have to worry about visa. This way I will probably get a green card in 1.5 yrs. Otherwise, I might to defer my admission by a year or two.
2. I do want to stay in tech and with my current job, I won't have to worry about finding an internship - which will save me some time as compared to others.
3. Finally, I won't have to worry about loans. With my current salary, I'll be able to pay off my MBA easily.
I've heard that a lot of folks do part-time work in their second year but haven't heard of anyone doing this for the first year. Even though the full class schedule for next semester is not available, I think I could try to make my classes morning heavy, focusing on my full-time job in the afternoon/evening.
Are there aspects (group studies, mandatory events etc.) that I'm missing in this whole equation? What I would like to know is if something like this is even possible or someone has done something similar?
Hello somerandomperson
Continuing a full-time MBA with a full-time job is going to be extremely tough. Yes, it is possible to earn by working part-time. This is, however, not advisable in the first semester. The first semester will be very busy and you will not be able to handle anything above the academic workload. However, from the next semester, you could try and explore part-time stuff.
What you are proposing might not help you get the maximum value out of a full-time MBA and is not recommended; you might want to check if another MBA format works better.
All the best!
