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18 Dec 2008, 07:50
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River,
Quick question here... by comparing banking with GM and others are you emphasizing more money in banking, as I thought GM and marketing pay well enough and can give you an opportunity to grow into a top exec. Am I mistaken?
18 Dec 2008, 08:18
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I feel like that for most folks - certainly many with whom I've had exchanges on this board - their professional goal is to make money. There's a personal satisfaction element to their goals too, but the big one is money, with which (presumably) they'll be able to support a family that lives very high and such.
My goals are different. I plan to do okay financially in my life (family, kids, college educations, etc.), but I'm never gonna be a millionaire unless something really dramatic happens. And I'm cool with that.
My professional goals are to help ease human suffering and give underprivileged people the tools to enhance their personal dignity. You can definitely make a (good) living doing that, but the salaries just don't compete with the corporate world and selling widgets and investment options and such. I'm getting an MBA to give me the tools to do what I want to do more effectively and go further in my career. Agold has a point about ROI - but I'm measuring my ROI not only in financial terms, but in what I can accomplish and how many I can help.
That's the purpose of my MBA education. Tools. In a more generalized sense, I think the same is true on the undergraduate level.
My goals are different. I plan to do okay financially in my life (family, kids, college educations, etc.), but I'm never gonna be a millionaire unless something really dramatic happens. And I'm cool with that.
My professional goals are to help ease human suffering and give underprivileged people the tools to enhance their personal dignity. You can definitely make a (good) living doing that, but the salaries just don't compete with the corporate world and selling widgets and investment options and such. I'm getting an MBA to give me the tools to do what I want to do more effectively and go further in my career. Agold has a point about ROI - but I'm measuring my ROI not only in financial terms, but in what I can accomplish and how many I can help.
That's the purpose of my MBA education. Tools. In a more generalized sense, I think the same is true on the undergraduate level.
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That's pretty much my point. You could achieve these goals without getting an MBA. If you said "I want to be a lawyer", I would say go to law school. But if you said "I want to ease human suffering and give underprivileged peopel the tools to enhance their personal dignity", the first thing I would say would not be go to bschool. But you have clearly identified bschool as an effecient way to achieve your goals. So regardless of whatever job you are doing know, you feel an MBA provides you the best ROI while acieving your goals.
I personally don't think this is the same for undergrad. I mean let's be honest as long as you go to a good enough institution you can pretty much get any job with and degree. An undergrad degree help you develop, teaches you how to learn and signals to your employer that you can be taught.
