As much as I swore off business school and never to sit in a business course ever again, I have come to the conclusion that I will get more mileage from an MBA program than a specific MPA or MPP program. I want to stay in philanthropy and possibly the public and community service sector but bring way more to the table.
I have strengthened oodles of skills with my community involvement over the years. My level of care for the public sector has grown to levels I never knew it would. “Sink or swim” has been the main motto every time I get into something new. I do not foresee this changing anytime soon.
So here we go. We’re waiting for replies from various PhD programs for The Joe. If he decides not to go through with it, I’m applying. If he decides to go, then my timeline will be a little longer. For now, I’m going to take a few courses to strengthen the skills I figured (in college) I would pay someone else for when I got older. I have definitely seen the error of my ways. I gotta be competitive, right?
Bad group project flashbacks started to happen when I attended my first info session the other evening. I remembered buzzing noises happening every time the class and professor started droning on about bottom lines and profit margins that had no higher purpose. For this reason, I MUST have a community service/public administration/public policy slant to my program. The potential of going postal would be too high for me if I could not customize a program this way.
Moving forward – I breathe in courage, hope and the true spirit of humanity with the highest intentions of truly contributing to and supporting a better world.
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