I'm about 5 years into my career and I'm burnt out and wanting something more challenging, but it seems like the next step for vaguely analytical people in the PNW is to get an MBA. Have you found an MBA to be useful? Did it matter what school you went to? A lot of MBA programs seem to just be there for the checkbox of having an advanced degree, so I've never really seen myself spending the money on one.

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I have an MBA from one of the local public universities, and I’m not sure how much my MBA has helped. Let me explain

I am an early career MBA. My undergrad degree has nothing to do with business. But many of my extracurricular activities skilled me up.

I learned after starting my MBA that I probably could have gone into Marketing in Portland without the MBA. However, the MBA was a very good crash course in multiple areas of business. It built up my confidence. It provided access and learnings into VC, entrepreneurship.

I have many undergrad classmates that went to a private school MBA program. They seemed to do well with pathways to certain large companies in the area.

Ultimately, I don’t believe it matters where you earn your MBA degree. However, do your due diligence. If you want to work at x company or in a specific industry, attending an MBA program that has that specialty or pipeline will help immensely.

For example, SSE1: finding an MBA program that has a cybersecurity specialty OR finding a university where they have a Cybersecurity degree allows you to beef up your class load with MBA classes and a few security classes as electives or additional classes

Hope this helps. Happy to answer questions

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Great input. Appreciated

Happy to chat and share mba experineces.

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Would love to hear them! This app doesn't let you private message, but if you're willing to share some general comments about it I'd appreciate it!

Following to see what others say on this. I’ve actually been contemplating an MBA as well; Hoping it will serve as a spring board for a career in leadership within my field of Cybersecurity.

Perhaps an executive MBA might cut it. Just not sure if I want to leave the keyboard behind at the moment. Still enjoying the technical stuff.

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I’m so glad I did the search on this topic! I’m contemplating doing it!

But is it worth it? How do you balance work, classes, family? So many questions

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You generally only need to go to a top program if you’re going into a highly competitive field like IB or MBB. Otherwise you’ll get out of it what you put in. For certain organizations it will open doors for you. At others no one will care.

I don’t know anything about your field, but generally larger companies- think large multinational organizations with a rigid hierarchical structure- will put more weight on an advanced degree than a company with a startup culture where the leaders are extremely results driven and don’t care what your credentials are as long as you do good work.

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