Business and Management Careers

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You’ve just earned your MBA. Congratulations/condolences.

If you went to one of the top half-dozen vaunted business schools, you will be sought after by corporate America like you’re the only pretty girl in a harbor town when the navy has just come back from eight months at sea.

However, if you were the valedictorian of the University of Phoenix, the welcome will…not involve tongue.

So what do you do with your newly minted letters?

How about going to Wall Street? If trading bonds like they’re sardines gives you chills (in a good way), and you went to one of the top few schools, get ready to be a millionaire in a few years. Maybe even one year if you’re willing to go without that whole “sleeping” nuisance.

Not so great at math? No problemo. How about taking a brand marketing job selling cereal, cars, and/or heated, massaging toothbrushes? At the end of a long day, don’t your gums deserve to be pampered a little?

Okay…not comfortable with the idea of having skin in the game? Easy answer. Become a management consultant and advise business leaders on the lowest friction method of firing people. Hint: Post-It Notes can go a long way.

If you really are a glutton for punishment, how about throwing away everything you learned in business school and starting your own company? This way, when you look for an idiot bureaucrat to scream at for ruining your company…all you need to do is find a mirror.

Long story short: if you want to be stuck with the enviable problem of having to figure out where in the world you’re going to store all your mounds of cash, business/finance is the way to go. There isn’t quite the money in medicine and law there used to be. Today, it’s the hospital administrators and heads of insurance companies raking in far more than the doctors themselves…i.e., people with business degrees.

So go the business route, and look and feel like a Million Bucks Always. (aka MBA)

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