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Don't feel bad. I finished 1.5 years of MBA and dropped out when the university showed how little they cared about me. Originally I signed up to get an MS in In
by chime 12y ago
Don't feel bad. I finished 1.5 years of MBA and dropped out when the university showed how little they cared about me. Originally I signed up to get an MS in Innovation Management (startups, new business tech., corporate finance for IT etc.) because my employer was keen on supporting my academic goals esp. if they coincided with my position as Director of IT. But one week before classes were to start, they dropped the entire program and "specially waived the MBA requirements" just for me and shoved me into their MBA program.
After I spent 1.5 years taking MBA courses, they revived the MS IM degree but wouldn't let me transfer any credits from MBA program into it, even though most of the early classes were same, taught by the same teachers.
It was then that I realized that the past few years of "leadership", "value proposition", and "customer-specific" drivel they had been feeding me was not something they actually cared about. They cared about enrollment, enrollment, and enrollment. I should know. The goal of the last class I took - Advanced Marketing - was to come up with surveys to find out what would increase enrollment into their MBA program.
Initially I felt like a failure even considering dropping out because I was only 2 semesters away from getting my MBA. But then I realized life is too short to be wasting time doing what you don't want to do. Fortunately for me, my career turned out significantly better after dropping out because I decided to dedicate myself to making something I truly cared about and over time, that has paid off way more than an MBA would.