If you wanted to do a career change, would you be open to quitting your job to do an internship for work experience to get into your desired industry full time?

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People think it’s crazy, but that’s essentially what you are doing when you do your MBA (+200k in tuition). Why not just skip and do an internship? Opportunity cost is much much less.

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I've been contemplating it these past few months in the lockdown. Didn't seem like such a bad idea actually.

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