Business school thread

[Anonymous No.50222671]

Hey /biz/ bros. I was retarded and got my bachelor's degree in political science which has been completely fucking useless, so I'm thinking about going back to school to earn my MBA and switch into a finance or accounting career, but I want to be sure it's worth it. Could anons with MBAs answer a couple of questions for me?
>what made you want to do it? what did you specialize in, and what job did you hope to get after?
>did it help you as much as you wanted/expected?
>was it worth it financially?
>did you actually learn anything useful or are you basically just paying for a piece of paper?
also, what's the best way to study for the GMAT?

[Anonymous No.50222719]

Where are you from?

[Anonymous No.50222743]

>>50222719
idk

[Anonymous No.50222746]

>>50222719
america, specifically the west coast

[Anonymous No.50222845]

>>50222671
>what made you want to do it?
My company told me its the best way to get a guaranteed promotion.
>what did you specialize in
Marketing/Data Analytics dual concentration
>what job did you hope to get after?
Portfolio manager / director of product
>did it help you as much as you wanted/expected? was it worth it financially?
Don't know yet, I'm only halfway through. But going from my engineering bachelor's to an engineering masters did wonders for my pay. So I'm assuming a second masters will also help my pay significantly.
>did you actually learn anything useful or are you basically just paying for a piece of paper?
So far just the paper, but meme tier business roles get paid more than engineering roles now so who cares? Course work is easy, but you're surrounded by midwit psuedo-intellectuals.

[Anonymous No.50222850]

>>50222671
"Learn anything"

Finance and economics are pseudoscientific make believe garbage, capitalism is inherently unstable, exploitative and unsustainable with a built in expiration date. All finance assets like money,crypto,debt,bonds etc are purely parasitic in nature and serve no purpose nor have any inherent value and private property is theft. Ever escalating recessions, poverty, disease, pollution, slavery and wars are fundamental and necessary functions of it and every single financier or crypto dudebro is a literal parasite.

You quit political science to get an actual garbage degree lmao. The only way to save this is to either quit or combine econ with your politcal degree

[Anonymous No.50223752]

>>50222850
lol

>>50222845
thanks for the input. is your company paying for any of your tuition? do you still work at all or are you a full time student?

[Anonymous No.50223769]

>>50222671
>accounting
MBA is absolutely worthless for accounting

t. senior accountant at a megacorp

[Anonymous No.50223874]

>>50223769
but if my bachelor's is in political science and I only have a few credits from an accounting class, there's no way I could get hired without getting another degree in accounting, right? so I would have to choose between getting another bachelors and getting an MBA, and if the cost and time required is similar, then shouldn't I do the MBA? or is there some other path I should take that I'm not seeing?

[Anonymous No.50223942]

>>50223874
if you want to work as an accountant you can do a masters in accounting. usually these are cheaper per credit hour since MBAs are normie scam degrees that are marked up even higher than masters degrees in general. many schools will admit non-accounting students to the masters program if you take remedial coursework. my undergrad was in math and i did a 1.5 year masters in accounting.

if you want to take the CPA (or you want to be eligible to take the CPA so you can lie to public accounting firms or other employers about your interest in taking the CPA) then you need to meet the educational requirements to sit for the CPA exam in your state. you'll have to google this, because it's state specific, but generally it's 150 credit hours total and 20-30 credits of your 150 credits must be in accounting or accounting-related fields like business law, business data analytics, etc.

[Anonymous No.50223948]

>>50222671
Worst mistake that you could possibly make in your entire life.

[Anonymous No.50224066]

>>50222671
I never went to college, but all of my friends did.
They spend all of their money paying back student loans. I spend my money buying assets.

Do with that information what you will.

[Anonymous No.50224074]

>>50223752
Yes I still work for the same company full-time and part-time student. Company pays for full tuition so long as I make B's or higher. I only "pay" for books (everything is on libgen) and other materials.

[Anonymous No.50225420]

>>50222850
What this guy said.

But you may be able to weasel some profit so enjoy.

[Anonymous No.50225442]

>>50222850
communists aren't human

[Anonymous No.50225516]

>>50222671
>also, what's the best way to study for the GMAT?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ItQk8biiig_HRyLHa32vEFzlbpTwehRY/view?usp=sharing

[Anonymous No.50225817]

>>50222671
>>what made you want to do it? what did you specialize in, and what job did you hope to get after?
It's easy as fuck and I'm a lazy motherfucker. I specialized in management but I have a natural talent for analysis. I hoped to get a job where I work for 2 hours and shitpost for the other 6

>>did it help you as much as you wanted/expected?
Yes, I get paid 100k to send pivot tables to people and play video games at home

>>was it worth it financially?
Yes. I went to state college so zero debt

>>did you actually learn anything useful or are you basically just paying for a piece of paper?
Yes, I learned that the majority of people are retards and how to tard rangle them in a professional setting. I also learned all the manipulation tactics that higher ups try to uses to placate the plebs

[Anonymous No.50225833]

>>50222671
Don't fucking do it anon, there are a million better ways to waste 200k+ than on tuition and lost income

MBAs if you haven't already made it are the most jewish thing on gods green earth. You're taking out a massive loan with mr sheklestein for opportunity to pay mr sheklestein back. You force yourself to wage for a minimum of 5 years before you see any roi and during that time you'll be eating shit because quitting or getting fired will bankrupt you.

You become a perfect wagie - a white collar slave - trapped in debt with no real assets, no bargaining power.

All the while you've lined the pockets of Mr S, HR roasties and the administrators of colleges that jacked up the price of an mba to 6figs+

[Anonymous No.50225865]

>>50225833
Just go to state college, dummy

[Anonymous No.50225877]

>>50222671
i got my mba for like $30k and it was pretty fun but absolutely pointless for my job cause i stayed in STEM

[Anonymous No.50226037]

>>50222671
>Retard getting worthless degree doubles down by getting worthless maters
You deserve poverty

[Anonymous No.50226175]

I'm seeing lots of people call this a retarded move and yet no solutions are offered. Is computer science the better idea here? I feel like im too retarded to go that route

[Anonymous No.50226830]

>>50226175
>no solutions are offered
How about not going to college at all and instead doing skilled, in-demand trades and using your excess income to purchase assets that will continue to grow your income debt free?

[Anonymous No.50226876]

>>50222671
MBA is only worth it if it’s M7

Accounting is only worth it if you can get into B4

Basically you’re fucked and you should just give up and drive trucks

[Anonymous No.50227034]

If you try to log in during maintenance, you deserve to get bricked

[Anonymous No.50227071]

>>50222671
didn't read thread but if you were stupid enough to get a degree in polisci then you'll be too stupid to do anything worthwhile with an MBA. Just got get a cert or something so your bugman brain can earn money

[Anonymous No.50227375]

>>50226175
If you go for it then just get a cheap one like from LSU for $12k. Focus on trying to break into tech for product management by getting a 6 sigma or NPDP cert. Congrats you make between $90-115k starting. Up to $170-200k starting if you break into FAANGM. It's only stupid if you don't actually use it. Like I said above, meme business roles like product management pay way more for way less work than a masters in mechanical engineering will get you today.

t. $55k for BSME, $75k for MSME, but $120k base $140k tc working as product manager for a major hvac firm.

Now all I do is pretend to work, fill an occasional excel spreadsheet, and sit in zoom meetings that don't actually need me there.

[Anonymous No.50227513]

>>50227375
That's def along the lines of what i'm interested in. Thanks for the input

[Anonymous No.50228062]

Go if you can get into the top 20 to maybe 25 schools. Don’t waste your time otherwise.

Consider consulting as a post MBA position, McKinsey Bain and BCG will comp your MBA if you intern with them etc.

[Anonymous No.50228675]

>>50222671
Take some accounting classes and get either a second bachelor's or a masters in it. The nice thing is that since you already have a bachelor's you'll graduate with 150 units so you'll be eligible to sit for the CPA exam. Its boring as shit but I'm making $29/hr as an intern and I'm not even finished with my undergrad yet. Finance degrees are a meme unless you go to a top school/have connections.