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Update on my MBA progress
#11
Dcan, you are so right. That is actually already happening. The problem is that the earth is not as large as it once was. We cannot continue to rake in huge salaries when our population is undereducated compared to the rest of the world. The time for high wages for easily done jobs is over. Its sad to say but America no longer has the upper hand. Its time for us to have to compete on our merits.

Just take a look at the cruise ships. They are staffed by, not Americans, but Europeans and Asians who are happy for the work. They are never registered in the US. The US is a terrible country to invest in right now. Most smart capital invests abroad in developing countries that are experiencing high growth and that have reasonable wages.

I really want jobs to come back to America and I think they will. But not in the Northeast or the West. They will come back to the southern states where wages are competitive and jobs are more plentiful.
BSBA CIS from TESC, BA Natural Science/Math from TESC
MBA Applied Computer Science from NCU
Enrolled at NCU in the PhD Applied Computer Science
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#12
ryoder Wrote:I don't know if I am missing anything. I probably am. However, the amount of solitary research skills I am gaining puts me in a very good position to complete the dissertation process of a PhD. The faculty that grades me at NCU are all PhDs for the most part and the syllabi I am graded by often make comments like "writing at the doctorate level should...". It is obvious that the curriculum was designed for PhD candidates. So I am not learning so much as a student but as a budding scholar.

Good point.. you might as well work through this as fast as you can, learning tons of research skills along the way. I have no desire for a PhD or DBA as neither would benefit me whatsoever in sales so it's not an issue to take my time on my 2 year program.

However, if you're working towards the PhD, that WILL take a lot of time and hopefully you can just keep moving and get it done before you're totally sick of the study. Ha ha... I'm only four weeks into it and already sick of it. lol.. no, not really. I'm happy studying and I enjoy it. I just hate the deadlines, but I am getting used to them. I really do enjoy the classroom.

On the topic of outsourcing.... It's outside the scope of my MBA program, but if I were ever to do more research on a topic, it would be on the hidden costs of outsourcing. I've done some reading on it for class, but I think that there is a great psychological effect on productivity and worker efficiency within an organization that negate the gains made from offshoring a few jobs here and there. I've seen it first-hand.. when jobs are sent overseas, the remaining workers just lose their motivation and loyalty to the company. Ideas are withheld, turnover increases, workers lessen their contributions,etc..
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#13
Keep up with the studying and enjoy yourself. Knowledge is power and power is good Smile

So with outsourcing it hurts worker morale. I agree. But that doesn't matter when you fire all 100 US employees so you can hire 200 Indian employees. The Indian employees are super happy to have the high paying jobs so you don't have to worry about them losing morale.

I heard a liberal say on the news that blue collar Americans are undereducated and overpaid in the global market. I tend to agree with that statement but his plan was to do hard core federally funded worker retraining but I think its too late for that. These 50+ machinists are probably not going to ever switch to inside sales jobs, finance or anything like that. They really need to lower their expectations for pay unfortunately. Sad to say.
BSBA CIS from TESC, BA Natural Science/Math from TESC
MBA Applied Computer Science from NCU
Enrolled at NCU in the PhD Applied Computer Science
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#14
I just finished Business Statistics with a 98%!
I am now 2 courses away from being done. Currently I am about 50% complete with my 9th course, Computer Graphics which is basically an XHTML, web design and programming course.
I just started CS6010 - Applied Computer Science Research Project. This is the capstone course for the MBA concentration and it is going to be great preparation for a doctoral dissertation. I just received my Business Research Methods book in the mail ($7 plus $4 overnight shipping on Amazon!) and I am ready to go.

I anticipate taking about 6 weeks on this course due to the amount of research and writing involved but we will see.
BSBA CIS from TESC, BA Natural Science/Math from TESC
MBA Applied Computer Science from NCU
Enrolled at NCU in the PhD Applied Computer Science
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