When I was in my final year in college, I graduated with a major in psychology and a minor in business management.
As I look back, I sort of wished I never minored in business management.
Virtually everything I learned in the school of business tends to differ and even contradicted from what I was learning in psychology.
I'm empathize, my friend.
I never met an MBA I didn't dislike.
For the purposes of this you've outed yourself as more of a humanist than a profits-maximizing negative-value-added MBA.
The vast majority of the work-for-hire I've done to date have been involved engineering, designing, creating, producing.
Engineers are ALWAYS up against MBAs and been counters (EG Accountants).
In my first job out of college a fellow engineer posed the question, "What's the difference between a been counter and an Engineer?"
After a pregnant pause he told me that answer, "A bean counter knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing; an Engineer knows the value of everything and the cost of nothing."
MBAs seem closer to the bean counter than the Engineer; they know costs but not the values and who values the goods and services having associated costs, for the most part, they regard the personal, subjective values of others irrelevant distractions vis-a-vis the reductionist value of the bottom lines of their profits and losses spreadsheets.
If I wanted to dissuade another such as yourself from pissing away precious time with `earning' and MBA I'd present the following:
Want to THINK like an MBA without pissing away a thousand hours of your life and paying someone for the privilege?
If so, just spend a half hour with
Bessy the Cow as seen from the various Points of View offered by rungs on an
Abstraction Ladder and you'll be the wiser for your efforts.
If you enjoy turning living `things' -- People, animals, plants ... the whole biosphere -- into an abstraction, such as `human resource', `livestock', or `asset' for fun and profit regardless of consequences in terms of pain, suffering, degradation of the environment, or exporting of the jobs of your countrymen elsewhere then sign up for that MBA program NOW.
Avoid the rush!
Sublimate your sociopathy.
Globalize your apathy for your fellow man, increase your value added to those who would use you as a tool for amassing corporate wealth as a means of amassing their personal wealth, status, and standing.
I've yet to meet an MBA who didn't abstract would-be individuals into production units thought of as `human resources' and wasn't ready willing and able to prostitute their talents for `the man', the CEO, whoever would pay them Judas money to `manage' and betray others in the name of professionalism and profits.
If INFPs make the best psychotherapists and we place them at one end of a spectrum I'd place xxxJ types with MBA degrees at the other.
MBAs induce psychological suffering pursuant to maximizing corporate profits and/or personal bonuses.
Those who value the well-being of others and endeavor to restore it when downgraded or lost are provided work by MBAs the way toxic cleanup workers make money off polluters.
Bessie the Cow, Gary the Plumber, Bob the mechanic, and John Q. Public are all `human' -- by lip service -- renewable resources, chattel, and livestock vis-a-vis the high and lofty rungs on the abstraction ladder which MBAs use as a vantage points.
Not that I'm generalizing or painting with a broad brush, mind you.
It's just that those with MBA degrees which don't act-as-if portrayed remain unemployed as a tool for creating wealth, amassing obscenely large mounds of beans, prostituting talents, etc. etc.
Just an opinion, FWIW.
