12-29-2018, 08:10 PM
I graduate from COSC in two days with a BSBA. Originally, I started on this path for a number of reasons - one of them being career change. I'm at a relatively job that I like okay working for a trade magazine. The downside is they pay me 5k less per year than the average public school teacher in my state (this AFTER three raises.) Being a small mom and pop company, there is no opportunity for advancement. I'm as far as I'm going to go here, and the owners are at retirement age, with no plans for transition or the future or anything. Even if I wanted to stay where I'm at, ultimately some infirmity will remove their ability to keep the company running in a few years.
What I'm arguably good at is communications. Writing, producing video content, finding narratives, PR, photography, public speaking, presentations, etc etc. I also have been a political nerd since I was 12 years old and would love to transition into politics ultimately... or work potentially in content creation or broadcasting for something like the NBA, UFC, or even WWE - or possibly working in content creation/PR for a professional sports team. That's the sort of stuff I'm passionate about. Politics and sports.
After talking it over with my wife about whether I should look for jobs now or keep the ball rolling and utilize the flexible schedule I have at work to do an MBA from either Purdue Global or WGU (as they're very cheap/fast), she suggested "Since you have the self-discipline to just churn through competency based college, and it's cheap, why not?"
I've read conflicting opinions that an MBA is a poor degree for career change, and that it doesn't have much value in that MBAs are a dime-a-dozen vs. an MBA is the most useful and flexible masters. The more I thought about it, the more I started thinking with one Business Administration degree under my belt, maybe something else might be better.
I'm interested in this forum's input on what to pursue in a Master's degree. Should I just churn through a WGU MBA quickly before trying to change careers? Are there sub-$9k communications, journalism, or similar degrees out there? (Preferably competency based, but I figure that's a longshot.)
And how would one go about breaking into politics?
What I'm arguably good at is communications. Writing, producing video content, finding narratives, PR, photography, public speaking, presentations, etc etc. I also have been a political nerd since I was 12 years old and would love to transition into politics ultimately... or work potentially in content creation or broadcasting for something like the NBA, UFC, or even WWE - or possibly working in content creation/PR for a professional sports team. That's the sort of stuff I'm passionate about. Politics and sports.
After talking it over with my wife about whether I should look for jobs now or keep the ball rolling and utilize the flexible schedule I have at work to do an MBA from either Purdue Global or WGU (as they're very cheap/fast), she suggested "Since you have the self-discipline to just churn through competency based college, and it's cheap, why not?"
I've read conflicting opinions that an MBA is a poor degree for career change, and that it doesn't have much value in that MBAs are a dime-a-dozen vs. an MBA is the most useful and flexible masters. The more I thought about it, the more I started thinking with one Business Administration degree under my belt, maybe something else might be better.
I'm interested in this forum's input on what to pursue in a Master's degree. Should I just churn through a WGU MBA quickly before trying to change careers? Are there sub-$9k communications, journalism, or similar degrees out there? (Preferably competency based, but I figure that's a longshot.)
And how would one go about breaking into politics?
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