What to do Next

Last week, I was accepted into the MBA program at the university where I live. People seem to be excited for me. I'm not. At least, I wasn't at first. Technically, I still am not but it isn't the same sort of lack of excitement.

I know that I am at a bit of crossroads in my life where I am not 100% sure what I want to do (although there are a few options that I am considering and really wanting to pursue), I know that I do not want to be stuck living at home for another two years, with a strong likelihood that it will be more than that. I do not have much of an interest in business and from endless job hunting, I have gathered that degrees have become practically meaningless in the job market. In fact, they have become a deterrent as there have been several positions that I have interviewed for and the person interviewing me shared concerns about me leaving for another position because I have a degree, or that I may be 'bored' with the position. It's incredibly frustrating.

Then, I started to think about what I could do back on a college campus. I can apply for internships that require college credit, because I am back in college. I can work while obtaining the degree, because they are all night courses and I can tell the person interviewing me that I have to stay for at least two years, and that's no guarantee with anyone else they are hiring. I can work on creating things that can be distributed and seen by other people. I can work for the school paper or radio station instead of trying to claw for those jobs in the 'real world' so that I can get some experience. I can study abroad like I always wanted to in undergrad, or at least do an exchange with another school in the US and land an internship in New York or Chicago. If anything, I could even just do this whole MBA thing for a year, land a job, and say goodbye to it with absolutely no qualms. I even looked over the curriculum and it seems like there is a stronger likelihood of becoming bored than becoming stressed over the workload.

Plus, things never work out the way people intend them to. Maybe this is a way for me to do everything I thought to doing in undergrad but didn't due to not knowing about it, being to scared to try, or just not having enough time. If anything, my GPA will be much higher and it will be seemingly more impressive because it's grad school which apparently is some sort of big deal. As long as I eventually reach the same final point, is it really going to matter how I got there?