Today was the Georgia State business school career fair, and it went pretty well for me. I started the application process for two jobs that I am VERY interested in, as well as several more I'm not so interested in. The ones I'm not so interested in have some amount of personal risk involved. There were, for instance, a few positions in insurance claims, and they pay decent, but they don't require an MBA. I have this fear I will get in a position like that and there will be a guy, let's call him Bob, who works in the same position but is just out of undergrad. So Bob and I work together with about equal performance for a year, then Bob decides to get an MBA. Maybe Bob and I both get promoted during this period. Then Bob gets his MBA and gets a promotion/pay raise for it. I already have an MBA, so I can't go get it again, and lose out on that upgrade Bob got, even though we have the exact same qualifications. Not only that, but several additional skills I picked up during school have remained underutilized and are no longer skills I am up to date with. So then my MBA was not only useless, but actually a negative.

The two jobs I'm really interested are both positions that would take advantage of my additional education in risk management. One of them will also utilize my writing skills and some amount of creativity. So that's the one I'm most excited about.

Got an interview tomorrow morning, I'll make sure to fill you in on how it goes.