Blonde MBADocumenting the life of a blonde MBA student in sunny California. Maybe some blondes DO have brains!

As I’m counting down the time until I go back to school, I’m thinking of (and having to explain to others) the reasons why I’m going back for my MBA. They just can’t seem to settle for “I want to be able to work from anywhere in the world and set my own rules”! I stumbled on the article “Should entrepreneurs be getting your MBA?” yesterday, which questions if going back to school is really necessary, when most of the business world operates on “who” you know versus “what.”

My reasons, beyond my own ambition, are simple-ish. While being a perpetual student with limited responsibility is mildly appealing (minus the no $$ part) and I already have a basic business background, I’m not surrounded by those “who you know” people - meaning, not just influential, active business leaders, but also like-minded, ambitious, creative cohorts in the field I want to be in,  who will challenge me to stretch farther.

Also, I don’t really have the “what you know” part down comfortably.  If I knew what I wanted to do while I was going through my undergrad,  I would have paid more attention to those technical skills that would be crucial to my business. Without having much real world experience (plus not knowing where you want to go), you don’t really know what you will actually use upon graduating, i.e. paper pushing, conflict resolution, stress relief, water cooler gossip.

Ambition: "Work from anywhere in the world"

This time around, I’m ready and know where I’m aiming. And my ambition in the end…”Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” ~(Confucius)