MBA Global
I've been accepted for a Global MBA at Aberdeen University (online); eeeeeeeek!
I am, in no order of importance:
scared
worried
excited
anxious
crazy
I never did a degree, I never did any kind of further education after my GCSE's (until much later). It's just not what we did where I was from, back then. The careers advisor at school thought I was crazy, I did well at school, but I thought I knew better and further education was never really something actively encouraged at our house, so off I went into the big wide world at the age of sixteen. Do I regret it? Yes, no, I'm not sure. I worked hard to get where I am, but it would have been a whole lot easier with that degree in my back pocket. Especially seeing as I left the UK in 1994 for the Netherlands, where pretty much everyone studies, well into their twenties and degree certificates are everything.
I started a degree in 2013 and I really really really loved it, although it was very hard managing my time as a single mum with a 7 year old and a full time job. Then the company I was working for got taken over and I was scared to carry on as I couldn't afford to pay it back if I lost my job. Then when I did have the courage to bring it up with the new company, they said no. I've been looking into doing something for the past two years, but a part time degree would take so long and I question what it would actually bring me with almost thirty years' work experience. An MBA sounds more exciting, useful and worthwhile in my current job and is only two years part time. I didn't think I would be accepted without a degree, but I started to look into it and found a couple of universities I fancied, bearing in mind the cost. There are MBA's for five thousand pounds, but not particularly reputable universities and the courses didn't float my boat. There's also MBA's closer to fifty thousand, which I just can't afford. Aberdeen university appealed to me, it's still 18k, a huge huge amount of money to me but sometimes when my old spontaneity rears it's ugly head, off I go at one hundred miles per hour (160km/ph to you non Brits ;-). I read lots of other university websites, but I actually only applied to Aberdeen. Long story short, they were impressed with my CV and my application letter and lo and behold, I've been accepted. It is conditional to first obtaining a Post Graduate Certificate, due to me not having a degree, but this is eight months of the MBA, same coursework, same curriculum, but it's also a kind of get out clause for me after eight months if it's all too heavy. I can leave with a PGCert. or I can carry on and go the full MBA.
I know it is going to be really tough. 15 hours a week on top of a 50+ hour job and a pre-teen, my life will be pretty much on hold for the next two years. I want to do this for me. Nobody else.
I am, in no order of importance:
scared
worried
excited
anxious
crazy
I never did a degree, I never did any kind of further education after my GCSE's (until much later). It's just not what we did where I was from, back then. The careers advisor at school thought I was crazy, I did well at school, but I thought I knew better and further education was never really something actively encouraged at our house, so off I went into the big wide world at the age of sixteen. Do I regret it? Yes, no, I'm not sure. I worked hard to get where I am, but it would have been a whole lot easier with that degree in my back pocket. Especially seeing as I left the UK in 1994 for the Netherlands, where pretty much everyone studies, well into their twenties and degree certificates are everything.
I started a degree in 2013 and I really really really loved it, although it was very hard managing my time as a single mum with a 7 year old and a full time job. Then the company I was working for got taken over and I was scared to carry on as I couldn't afford to pay it back if I lost my job. Then when I did have the courage to bring it up with the new company, they said no. I've been looking into doing something for the past two years, but a part time degree would take so long and I question what it would actually bring me with almost thirty years' work experience. An MBA sounds more exciting, useful and worthwhile in my current job and is only two years part time. I didn't think I would be accepted without a degree, but I started to look into it and found a couple of universities I fancied, bearing in mind the cost. There are MBA's for five thousand pounds, but not particularly reputable universities and the courses didn't float my boat. There's also MBA's closer to fifty thousand, which I just can't afford. Aberdeen university appealed to me, it's still 18k, a huge huge amount of money to me but sometimes when my old spontaneity rears it's ugly head, off I go at one hundred miles per hour (160km/ph to you non Brits ;-). I read lots of other university websites, but I actually only applied to Aberdeen. Long story short, they were impressed with my CV and my application letter and lo and behold, I've been accepted. It is conditional to first obtaining a Post Graduate Certificate, due to me not having a degree, but this is eight months of the MBA, same coursework, same curriculum, but it's also a kind of get out clause for me after eight months if it's all too heavy. I can leave with a PGCert. or I can carry on and go the full MBA.
I know it is going to be really tough. 15 hours a week on top of a 50+ hour job and a pre-teen, my life will be pretty much on hold for the next two years. I want to do this for me. Nobody else.
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