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I think my BBA is useless. My major was computer business information systems way back in 1997, yeah I'm getting old. I never really USED my degree and over the past decade have done temp work, customer service, worked at a movie studio. I changed and I do massage therapy but now I'm bored and want to go back to a real career job. The massage therapy is slow at the spa and now I can't seem to get back in to the market. I'm not sure if my skills are no longer useful or is my degree obsolete.
I live in L.A. so that's one problem. My best skill is working with people. However, I have never done anything specific with my degree and honed any specific skills like accounting or finance. Just didn't have the luck. Now I feel like i need to go back to school.
I don't, but when they told everyone that the manufacturing industry had to go (to China and Mexico), and told everything that IT was much better and the thing to get into, they were already outsourcing it also and there wasn't much for the glut of new graduates with IT degrees. What's left is the service industry, including health care.
The other problem with IT is that for many people in IT, it's actually their second or third degree, they move into IT after knowing another field inside and out so that they can be good in IT for their particular field. That is - IT is best when combined with something else so you can actually understand what users are asking or need.
It's silly to think one has the credentials to administer and manage a business without any experience or knowledge of the business itself. That's the problem with getting BBAs. At least with MBAs, most people already have some years of industry experience and are just complementing their resumes.
It's also what led GM to the brink of bankruptcy. None of their upper management had a background in automotive engineering. They became a pension and marketing company, and not a car company. Whereas if you look at Honda and BMW, all their top management are former mechanical engineers. Not surprising that Honda and BMW make better cars.
My elementary education degree is useless. I have been out of work for 10 months. Even the Secretary of Education said that teacher layoffs have been "unprecedented" and will likely continue. I want to switch careers.
I have this exact degree, I graduated in 2005 however, and know exactly how you feel. I might as well got a degree in dog grooming. It serves it purpose as a degree to pretty much have a degree, as I am with the gov't, just having a degree opens up many doors with the feds.
I think my BBA is useless. My major was computer business information systems way back in 1997, yeah I'm getting old. I never really USED my degree and over the past decade have done temp work, customer service, worked at a movie studio. I changed and I do massage therapy but now I'm bored and want to go back to a real career job. The massage therapy is slow at the spa and now I can't seem to get back in to the market. I'm not sure if my skills are no longer useful or is my degree obsolete.
I live in L.A. so that's one problem. My best skill is working with people. However, I have never done anything specific with my degree and honed any specific skills like accounting or finance. Just didn't have the luck. Now I feel like i need to go back to school.
Anyone else feel this way?
I think B2B sales is your best bet if you want a more "professional" career with out having relevant work experience and you are good with people.
I have a BS in Business & an MBA from the 2000s and I can name more members of my class that now work as someone's assistant, as a retail worker, or as a salesperson than I can people who are in successful leadership positions. I think it takes years. YEARS. Esp in this economy with so many underemployed people.
No one cares that you have a business degree you have if you are going against people with a degree & 20 years experience who will work for $10 just so their homes don't go into foreclosure.
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