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I think it depends upon what you are doing : If your goal is to work for someone else then the MBA may - or may not - be useful. On the other hand if you are starting, running, or aquiring busineses then the MBA itself will be of little use - and nearly everything that is taught in business...

It really wont open any doors that you yourself cant open if you put forth some effort..... Add up the opportunity costs of a 100K plus per year job and the 60K plus direct costs and you are talking over 300K to do this MBA. Are you really unable to advance your own career without an MBA...

Finding a job is never an issue. The issue is what type of job will you get. I know a bunch of laid off, unemployed Stanford MBA's that had their careers wrecked by the tech downturn - no I'm not one of them. If the MBA is free and you are not making any money or have no career then sure, go...

And is that your story ?

Probably really bad advice ...... The only people that are happy with what they have are the people that end up losing their jobs through outsourcing and are going nowhere ...... As for getting in .... anyone with the dollars to pay for the degree and two cents of common sense can get in if...

quite a few successful futures traders started at the grain exchange and eventually moved to Chicago .....

Is right field the correct place to be ? .... Most of your posts are not decipherable: this one is. This is exactly what need s to be done to keep trading profitably. Perhaps it could be stated in fewer words like trade volatility and reproducible patterns ..... I dont trade the same...

Dont underremphasize the opportunity cost. Unless you are spending that money its compounding somewhere. Moreover, you need to remember that even at Stanford, its still a low average game: Everyone that goes through their programs does not get an MD slot. You would be surprised at how few...

The problem with all these tools is that if you have no idea how your systems work, then you end up with a lot of wasted time dealing with all the errors - err euphemisticaly false positives - that these tools ultimately produce. The best solution to spyware / malware is no solution other...

I'm not quite sure why you quit your job .... unless it was involuntary. I really hope you have excellent cash reserves and a place to stay free of charge because your strategy is quite risky. It seems to me that it would have been much wiser to just look for another job at a different...

Everybody knows that you cant get firewood in Santa Barbara ....... people in that region of the coast simply burn dollar bills .....

Generally a good compliance system is connected to a workflow that requires signoff of multiple parties for such an extraordinary trade. This check and balance usually stops the problem before it ever occurs .. unless the person at the top authorizes the trade and allows it to be put on anyway...

All of these stories conjures up a picture of the pointy haired boss from Dilbert. I wonder how it is that these firms are not immediately shuttered and the principals put in irons. Its pretty easy to build compliance systems that examine EVERY trade before its sent out over the wire to...

I generally dont listen to Bill .... He is a great trader and fund marketer and I think you need to always frame his comments within that context.

Well, I am generally an optimist on the US Economy but for the next 4 quarters my most optimistic prediction is flat. Generally I feel that a number of no so great factors have appeared at the same time that make it unlikely that we will see even the status quo held next year. The most important...

This entire thread does not ring true. Anyone with half a brain that has the credentials listed by the original poster would not be here asking for this type of information: In fact, if this was a real story and they did come here asking for advice then they clearly dont have the right stuff to...

This is really sound advice and represents a well worn pattern of business development in most consulting .....

set back yes but not as severe as the areas where there has been much more speculation ... this is what I meant by "OK " ... a modest reduction.

Orange county although i split my time between there and the Chicago area. ...

They might be .... But you really dont need their forecast. Its simple. Look at the cost of an average house and the average wage in the area to support it. The two do not equate in most areas of the state. Look at california's job growth rate and the growth of compensation in the state. No...