Christina Ellis

debt and undergrad and then took on a bunch in grad school so I think it's really important to ask some hard questions before you just decide to go to grad school because maybe it's the right decision but it may not be so yeah I kind of wrote out some questions I thought we could talk I love this hit me with the first one this is really good question one okay so if you're thinking about grad school is the next step okay one question you should ask is is this just a check mark mm-hmm

We took a call from somebody, I think it was last week or two weeks ago, where she was thinking about getting an MBA because she had a professor tell her that that's what she needed to be successful in business.

That if she just had an undergrad in business, then she wouldn't be successful.

So she needed to have that checkmark in order to have the right opportunities.

Now, mind you, she was already working in a job that was business related and really loved it and didn't actually want to get the degree, but she felt like she had to in order to be successful.

Right.

And you can learn a lot of great things, but it may not be necessary.

And like with this girl, she was going to go to an MBA program that had no track record.

That's right.

It had no history.

It was just simply.

Right.

So for some people, if you want to get an MBA, if you can afford it, that's great.

And for some careers, you do need grad school.

But make sure you're asking yourself before you go to grad school, is it a checkmark?

Another question is, is there another way to get the training you need?

And I know you talk about this a lot.

There's a lot of people getting master's degrees and PhDs in digital marketing.

And maybe they could have just gone through a certificate course on how to do social media.

Is there another way?