Best Job experience after Undergrad for Top MBA

Japher
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:10:50 +0000

hmom was indicating that the cost/benefit analysis for actuary is not in favor of getting an MBA for actuary; i.e. you’ll earn to much to waste 2 years getting an MBA. Actuaries have thier own highly desired career paths, and don’t need an MBA to make it to the top. I think comparing an engineer to an actuary, in anway, is flattering as an engineer, but it’s like comparing apples to potato chips. I thought about becoming an actuary and then saw what they had to go through and decided to get my MBA and maybe my PE instead. That’s how rigourous their training is. It is not a profession you fall into. If you want to be an actuary than be one, and forget about the MBA.

Working for a start-up will really test your stuff. I’ve worked for some very large brand name companies and am now in a start-up, I don’t think I’ve been tested so hard before. Not only do my engineering skills need to be up to snuff but so does everything else, if I or one of my three collegues doesn’t do it then it doesn’t get done.

Consulting is also a good line of work to get into an MBA program.