I have a thing about "that guy." It's a universal phrase I use to describe anybody that puts themselves outside of the norm in a negative and outrageous way. Basically, an asshole who thinks he's not an asshole but has asshole moments.
Anyway, I'm about to be that guy. I'm going to complain about making more money than most people and how awful it was. I apologize in advance.
For the past couple days, I've really wondered about my decision to leave my previous company and attend graduate school. Here's a comparison:
Scenario A: I stay at my job, working from my apartment three blocks from the beach. In fact, with the reorganization that just occurred, I probably would have gotten promoted into a director position, which would also include a nice bump in salary plus more bonus money. I also don't spend a shitton of money moving to Boston, live in a crappy studio in Mission Hill, I get to live/eat/spend better, and I don't incur a ton of student loan debt.
Scenario B: My life now.
For the Northeastern MBA program, average salary coming out of school is something like 85K, which I was already close to making if I got the bonuses I would have expected to get. Essentially, I need to recover the 170K I would have made during my two years at school, plus my loans of about 30K in total over two years (thank god for scholarships).
By this calculation, I need to make something like 100K coming out of school to recover my costs in five years. I'm not entirely certain that's possible.
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