Hello Alan,

First you must be honest with your self as to why you are pursing an advance degree (is it for personnel or professional reasons?)

Professionally, I am currently pursing an advance degree to allow me to have the opportunities to develop applications for the collection of data, data warehouse projects, data mining projects, and Business knowledge areas. I am interested in helping companies perform to their maximum capability. I must have an advance degree to prove or justify to the client / boss / or anyone else that I have the beginning level training to justify my working on these types of projects.

What has been interesting to me is the way some people / programmers treat me, some programmers treat me as
A person only wants to be management material and not technical. Which is not true because, I see my self as a person who want management decision making capabilities but also programs as well. What is interesting is my knowledge level concerning the Understanding of conceptual material and my ability to separate the true facts from the marketing snow job has been greatly expanded.

But, The biggest improvement is my ability to communicate effectively to other people has changed so I can talk to other people in their professional language and style, and importantly be understood by them has improved greatly.

The more I understand about other peoples responsibilities and duties the more I want to stay in the technical and knowledge base areas of computer science.

I do have some personal reason for accomplishing this MBA.

P.S. Currently I am five classes away from completing an MBA in Information Technology degree. My undergraduate degrees are Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Major Economics and Minor Management

Andy