View Poll Results: What career path should I choose ?

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Thread: My future career path?

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    I have been stripping for four years. I feel like I may have about a year left in the business before I burn out completely. I have always been a writer and photographer at heart and I will continue to do this on the side just as I am now. But I need to choose my career path. I already have a Bachelors in Film and Anthropology. The only thing this has given me is something to put on my resume. My grades were not that great for most of my degree except for the last year when I finally chose to get rid of the loser boyfriend and thereby the stress out of my life. Now I am doing back to community college to get some better grades under my belt and to get some better computer skills (office programs).
    I am tied between just getting a secretarial job somewhere and trying to move up the company. I could get an MBA specializing in Accounting. I could get a MS in Gerontology and work with the elderly which I have done before but it paid crap and that is how I wound up stripping anyway. I could also used the money I have saved dancing and just use it to start my own company. Maybe teaching exotic dance and yoga. I feel bad that i am so confused, but I feel better that I am going back to school. I fear that if I do go back and get a Masters in Anything that it will be right back where I was after I graduated. Please give advice..
    Last edited by stripperMBA; 08-14-2006 at 05:01 PM.
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    Unless you have a true passion for Gerontology, I would recommend not going into a field that doesn't pay as well as you'd prefer. By the tone of your post, it sounds as though you could be just as happy doing more profitable things. Second choice would be to get an entry-level secretary job and work your way up in a company, which is what you'd have to do if you didn't have stripping to pay the bills. But since you have an opportunity to further your education and specialize in Accounting, I say go for it. You will increase your earnings potential by having a specialty, and will learn valuable skills for any future endeavors. Opening up your own business is a great idea and a good long-term goal, but I recommend waiting until you have more experience uder your belt. An accounting degree and a few years of working as an accountant for somebody else will prepare you for that. By that time you will understand your passions and talents a little better, and will have had more time to build up your finances. Then you can re-evaluate your goals after a few years. From what I've heard most people don't stay in one job throughout their entire lives anymore anyway. There are always new opportunities that open up. But get that education while you can. A B.A. degree is great, but if you have the ability and the desire to farther don't sell yourself short. That's really just my opinion though. Only you know what's best for you.

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    Judging on your degree and my assumption that your work experience is mainly stripping related, an MBA is not going to be worthwhile for you. The value of an MBA is very much based on its pedigree, which equates to a good alumni network and excellent recruiting at the schools in question so can land that 80-200k job out of school. The consequence of that is that the only MBAs that matter are from the first and second tier schools. Unless you've got some great business experience that you're going to try and sell Sloan, Tuck or Vanderbilt on that doesn't include stripping you're going to have a damn hard time getting in anywhere that will be of any assistance to you. Well an MBA from *insert 4th tier school* will get you a 30-50k a year job I suppose.

    Likewise if you want to go accounting you're going to need 2 years + of upper division credits before you can take the CPA exam in most states, some states require a Masters degree in Accounting (not an MBA with an emphasis). And an accountant who can't even sit for the CPA exam is an accountant that doesn't gets paid well. Also since you undergrad was in Anthro & Film you won’t have many of the pre-req courses for accounting and will probably need to spend 3 or more years just to get a BA/BS in Accounting.

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    I'm not trying to be a PIA or a doubter. If you wish to pursue accounting or the business world in general I am sure that you can, but you have to know the real situation and what the hurdles are before you can decide what you wish to do. And listening to the schools won't give you the real situation. Even in the undergraduate world of accounting you have to make sure the school you are at is being recruited by the Big 4 firms otherwise you'll miss out on the higher paying jobs.
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    My opinion....get the MBA, then open the dance studio. If that doesn't work out, you can fall back on the MBA.

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    Thank you all for the advice.
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