The Takedown
So I've been thinking about grad schools a lot lately. I have to eventually go back and get my MBA if I want to advance past a certain level at the company. The smartest thing to do would be to go back as soon as possible since the longer I wait the less motivated I'll be, and I'm living at home and have less bills and obligations. The problem is, I have no idea where I want to go. I would just go to Central, but their MBA program is retarded and won't let me in because I haven't worked long enough. They have an online one starting in the fall of '08 that is the same thing as the one I can't get into, but waives the work experience requirement. Then I was thinking if I get one online, why wouldn't I just get an online one from a more prestigious out of state school? Then I thought getting an online one was a dumb idea all together because you can't possibly get the same thing out of it as a face-to-face thing, can you? I went to some college fair today and go info about all the different programs around here. Nothing seemed to excite me too much. For some reason I just want to do something different. Wouldn't it be nice to go away for 2 years and get it someplace nice? While that sounds nice, I don't think the work situation would allow that. Then I thought Chrysler is a big place and I'm on a rotational program, so I could take my next assignment out of state and get my degree and work there at the same time. Then the problem with that is we're probably shutting down a ton of plants in the next couple years so I could get axed, and I researched all our locations and they're 90% in the Midwest and not near any good schools. You would think that a company that used to be one of the biggest in the world would be a little more spread out. After all those thoughts, I'm still stuck back in square one. I don't know why I'm making such a big deal about it either, it's just a fucking piece of paper. I think that the problem is that I feel the need to do something away from here to extend my college experience another 2 years instead of being trapped in my job forever. It's funny because I haven't been able to figure out if the people who stayed in school longer or continued on are idiots, or I'm the idiot for leaving on time to join corporate america. I guess I could come up with arguments for both sides.