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January 17, 2006
The World is Awash in MBAs
Lots of people are trying to ahead. I’m no different. When I got laid off my job a few years ago, I thought I could hide out in grad school after the bubble burst like everyone else. I’m just as smart as the next idiot with a liberal arts undergrad, right?
So I apply to business school at the University of Minnesota. Enough of this nickel and dime – I was going to get the ticket to the big bucks – the MBA. And what do you know, I get in. It made me feel good, like I did have some talent. Entrance tests, limited enrollment, and I still made it. I’d blend my nice, plush, cuddly liberal arts smarts with the cold concrete financial practicality of an MBA. Who lays off someone like that? No sane boss! I’d be in the management club, armed with a degree and my newly-practiced secret handshake.
So I’m still here, in school, 4.5 years later, and even though it’s been a haul, I had still remained relatively excited about what I’m going to get for my $900-per-credit degree once I’m done later this year. I was still feeling pretty special. Then two things happened that made me feel that, in the past five years, everyone but me completed their MBA. Everyone in the world but me.
Situation #1: I’m talking with the carpenter who’s rebuilding a room in my house one day when he casually mentions he’s a retired stockbroker who has an undergraduate degree in civil engineering and, of course, an MBA. I’ve know him for about a month, and he’s just about the nicest, most humble, thoughtful guy in the world. The kind of aw shucks guy everyone likes. And this guy has his MBA??? OK, so maybe I’m not so special…
Situation #2: My wife and I have our neighbor over for wine and cheese so she can show us her pictures from the trip she just took to Italy. Since we’ve lived next door, we’ve know her as a librarian who was forced into early retirement last year. Turns out she is the former HEAD of the Minneapolis public libraries, and, of course, she has her MBA. Confirmation has been officially received – I am not so special.
Now given these occurrences, what could be next? I may take my garbage out next week, greet my neighbor on his backstep, and find out that he has an MBA. The customer service rep at the local utility might casually mention as she waits for the computer to bring up my information that, yes, she too is finishing her MBA. My cousin, who I haven’t seen in a while, possibly will show up, and when asked what he's been up to, tell me he’s been hiding out as he completed his MBA.
What about my mailman? The guy I bought a rake from at the hardware store? The woman behind the counter at Starbucks? The guy who’s just a little too old to be riding that skateboarding down the street? From now on, in my mind, all MBAs. I haven’t been getting ahead all these years, I’m just feebly keeping pace with all my neighbors, all the garbagemen, all the skater-dudes with the 70’s hair. So much for feeling special.
Posted by kell0256 at January 17, 2006 4:44 PM
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