What do you guys think about an MBA degree?

[Keep It Real, Yo]

Everyone, here is an underserved market with high margins that I just have no desire to get involved in:

Wedding rentals.
Tables, chairs, cloths, pretty shit, fancy decorations. The people I've seen that can make a decent living from this aren't all that savvy, they were just willing to give it a shot. What you need: $$ to get started, a good front person to sell to brides, and a way to market that you are better than the others. Oh, and research so that you can actually be better than the others, which is important for long term success.

[limabeanactuary]

Originally Posted by Agadefe

You're probably right.

I was looking into doing this to get a Masters in statistics a little while ago and plenty out there, but probably different for MBA.

...and the reason that stats, math, etc. grad students get paid to teach is because there's a bunch of freshman-level classes in those departments that need teachers. And grad students are super-cheap (as are adjuncts).

If the business department is using grad students to teach undergrad courses, it's mainly going to be those in the PhD programs, not MBA students.

[ShebaPoe]

Originally Posted by Keep It Real, Yo

Everyone, here is an underserved market with high margins that I just have no desire to get involved in:

Wedding rentals.
Tables, chairs, cloths, pretty shit, fancy decorations. The people I've seen that can make a decent living from this aren't all that savvy, they were just willing to give it a shot. What you need: $$ to get started, a good front person to sell to brides, and a way to market that you are better than the others. Oh, and research so that you can actually be better than the others, which is important for long term success.

IN.

Oh wait..."sell" the brides. I thought you were said something else. Sorry.

OUT.

[Brock]

Originally Posted by Keep It Real, Yo

Everyone, here is an underserved market with high margins that I just have no desire to get involved in:

Wedding rentals.
Tables, chairs, cloths, pretty shit, fancy decorations. The people I've seen that can make a decent living from this aren't all that savvy, they were just willing to give it a shot. What you need: $$ to get started, a good front person to sell to brides, and a way to market that you are better than the others. Oh, and research so that you can actually be better than the others, which is important for long term success.

One better. How about renting the brides?

[Keep It Real, Yo]

Originally Posted by Keep It Real, Yo

Everyone, here is an underserved market with high margins that I just have no desire to get involved in:

Wedding rentals.
Tables, chairs, cloths, pretty shit, fancy decorations. The people I've seen that can make a decent living from this aren't all that savvy, they were just willing to give it a shot. What you need: $$ to get started, a good front person to sell to brides, and a way to market that you are better than the others. Oh, and research so that you can actually be better than the others, which is important for long term success.

Almost forgot the main problem in an industry like this: If you expand and train competent and responsible managers, those same managers will likely say, "Eff this, I'm starting my own". The expansion is the hard part.

[Keep It Real, Yo]

Originally Posted by Brock

One better. How about renting the brides?

If you have enough women willing to be rented out as brides so that you can make cash money I think you pretty much already have it made.

[Interrogative Statement]

Originally Posted by Not Mike

I think this "donkey" shit is really stupid and no one really knows what it means.

IFYP

[Durai]

I think ditka began a theory of donkey thread around here.

ETA: http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actu...d.php?t=222575

Feeling defensive about the donkey label should be added to the list.

[Interrogative Statement]

Originally Posted by Durai

I think ditka began a theory of donkey thread around here.

ETA: http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actu...d.php?t=222575

Feeling defensive about the donkey label should be added to the list.

Rrrrriiiiiiight

[Nee-2-No-Bases]

Originally Posted by Interrogative Statement

Rrrrriiiiiiight

Why are people so hung up on this donkey shit? Why do you find it so offensive.

The concept behind it is perfectly valid, and to not seeing it is being naive. Don't want to admit to being a donkey? Grow up. Most people are donkeys. Most people work for someone else, play by someone else's rules, and beg at the feet of their employer for a paycheck. Occassionally beg at the feet of their employer for a bigger paycheck doing a more important job. FACT.

But if you're happy, who cares? That's most people's lot in life. A lot of other people are happy with it, so why be ashamed of it. You have a pretty wife, cute kids, nice stuff. What are you complaining about? Nothing. Your lucky. Who care's if your a donkey? Who cares if you have to play by someone else's rules? Most people do.


So why get so offended by the concept that not everyone lives that way? Why get offended by the concept that not everyone has to live that way?

Some people choose not to. They choose to take risk and be responsible for their own future. For their own paycheck. A lot of people fail, and go be donkey's, but at least they tried. Other people choose not to be a donkey and succeed. They achieve freedom over thier financial situation, and freedom over thier time. That's part of what it means to throw barrels.

Not everyone wants that. Not everyone who does want it can have it. Theirs no shame in not wanting it. There's no shame it going for it and failing.


Yeah, sheba gave is a seemingly deragatory name. But the concept is clear. Why deny the truth of it, and why be offended by it?

It's real, and we are walking talking examples. When someone says, "You have brown eyes like poop," and you actually have brown eyes, what do you say? You say, "yeah. I do have brown eyes like poop, but I'm still $^cking awesome!!!!"