With a potential recession and increased conflict in the Middle East looming, why does it make sense to leave a stable job and go to school if you could be unemployed as a result?

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With all the future events in your life being uncertain, why does it make sense to plan or do anything at all? 😂

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Because Harvard.

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Because Chico State

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Easily one of the best Top 30 West Region Schools out there. Barely any different from Sloan

Because Stanford.

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It does when you are sponsored - aka guaranteed a job upon your return.

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Are you planning to leave this year or are you forecasting for years ahead? If you enter b-school this fall, you’d graduate in spring 2022. What do you think the world will be like then?

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Because Wichita State University.

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It doesn’t. That’s why I’m not leaving

Even in past times of recessions MBAs fared alright

Because YOLO

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