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My advice: Don't keep MBA as your goal, as with your hotchpotch of work-ex, even a M7 MBA wouldn't get you anywhere. MBA is only an icing over a robust "work-ex" cake.
Analyse your areas of interest, pick one, specialise and make a career out of it. Atleast 5 years of focused work and then you can think of MBA, if it still interests you.
My "hotchpotch" of work experience is mostly due to focusing on school. I was premed, which doesn't require work experience at all, so any work experience I had was incidental. Most premeds have similar (emt, scribe, nursing assistant, pharmacy technician, tutor, etc.) or nonexistent work experiences (good amount of people I know who matriculated to med school never worked in college or they worked jobs like retail briefly), as this is a sort of all-or-nothing endeavor.
My only issue with your advice of analyzing my areas of interest and specializing in one to make a career out of it is that my degrees are essentially worthless. I don't qualify for any jobs in my field. My degrees are stepping-stone degrees into graduate schools, without a graduate degree, I would be working at Publix or Target or something.
Which is why I am writing this post, to find out if any of my listed work experience might count, and if there's any potential careers that I could do which would make me more competitive for b-schools while simultaneously being a career that I actually have a chance of getting into without doing additional schooling..
Also, with 5 years of work, I would be 32... Wouldn't it be better to get an MBA and then work? Also, why is the 5 year your recommendation when there are business schools that admit applicants with 0 work experience?
Thanks.