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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?

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Thanks for sharing your profile. Lots of questions here, I'm going to give you some overarching guidance, you basically don't have any formal business work experience which is not terrible as many people transition from non traditional backgrounds but most of your work experience will not be considered formal FT work experience including your PT gigs and retail stuff. i would not suggest any more degrees that don't get you closer to your ultimate career goals, which are??? If you are interested in pursuing a career on the business side of the medical field I would look for work experience there for a few years before pursuing an MBA.
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Glad that you clarified that my prior "work experience" doesn't count. At least now I know where I stand and what I need to do.
Gotcha! I'm really not sure if I want to continue even being in the business side of medicine.. My experiences have not been that great. (An MBA wouldn't even be necessary for the management side of medicine, however, an MBA could help with that and open more doors than that, for now, I want a complete change of scenery)
What would your recommendations be if I wanted to get work experience OUTSIDE the medical field entirely, in order to be more competitive for MBA programs?
I have no idea what I am even qualified for, if anything.
I contacted an MBA consulting co. and they said that I don't really qualify for any jobs that would help with getting into MBA programs.
Also, for the business side of the medical field, I don't think I qualify for any of that either. Those require MPH or MHA or MBAs.
My degrees are pretty useless, and in my field a graduate degree is a minimum requirement for most jobs.
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