Posted by: kalidasbhaisaab December 24, 2016
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@ktm123us Jee, my hope and best wishes that you find peace in the decision that you make. I read all threads, by our community, suggesting you many great advice. I agree with them and I have nothing new to add. The decision is yours and it is hard. The only one thing that I had question because I was not clear from the title of your thread is whether you have already been conferred a diploma with PhD? If you have not yet then obviously you are close and I too, like many of us here, encourage you to complete and get the degree conferred first. As we all universally agree that even if you decide to go back to Nepal or settle in another country like Canada or Australia, the conferred degree with PhD will come handy. If you have been already granted the PhD by your University then please ignore. That is all. I wanted to make sure that I understood and then wanted to suggest, like @Paudel did.
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If you have time to read further then I can quickly share my experience. I did my MBA from a non relevant private university that is not in any popular published rankings, like not even in Top 1000 ranked colleges in US. The fees were reasonable and I did not get any scholarship or financial assistance. By working at college and **cough, cough** I managed tuition and living expenses. Since the college was in the city it was easy that way. After graduating went to desi consultancy and rest is the same old story. I am still a Business Analyst but my notion of this 'Business Type' jobs and 'IT Type' jobs were challenged in my current job. The bank that I am working for has understood this legacy business vs. IT conundrum. So the recent strategic declaration they made internally was to announce that they are an IT company which also happens to be a Bank. One of the top challenges (amongst list of 20) that the CEO of this bank mentioned in a Bloomberg article is hiring right (high end) skills. He says, that not having right enough programmers and skills that support their IT infrastructure has come to a point that their competitive advantage in the marketplace is being threatened by budding Fintech companies. In every town halls the senior level management declares that they are short in hiring right skill set.
Summary: Almost all Fortune 100 Job Openings are for specific skills that we traditionally call 'Information Technology'. There is NO 'Business' type jobs. The only Non-IT jobs in that sense may be in mature industries like Accounting, Industrial Chemistry, Power Plant Maintenance, Law, Medicine, Automotive Industry etc. Learning the skill set that are in demand is challenging but the rewards are incomparable.Also, there are NO entry level jobs unless they are call center associate types. A proficient automation tester who starts a first job (**cough cough** with ** experience) will definitely earn at par or more than a tenured Professor of American Studies.
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If you have time to read further then I can quickly share my experience. I did my MBA from a non relevant private university that is not in any popular published rankings, like not even in Top 1000 ranked colleges in US. The fees were reasonable and I did not get any scholarship or financial assistance. By working at college and **cough, cough** I managed tuition and living expenses. Since the college was in the city it was easy that way. After graduating went to desi consultancy and rest is the same old story. I am still a Business Analyst but my notion of this 'Business Type' jobs and 'IT Type' jobs were challenged in my current job. The bank that I am working for has understood this legacy business vs. IT conundrum. So the recent strategic declaration they made internally was to announce that they are an IT company which also happens to be a Bank. One of the top challenges (amongst list of 20) that the CEO of this bank mentioned in a Bloomberg article is hiring right (high end) skills. He says, that not having right enough programmers and skills that support their IT infrastructure has come to a point that their competitive advantage in the marketplace is being threatened by budding Fintech companies. In every town halls the senior level management declares that they are short in hiring right skill set.
Summary: Almost all Fortune 100 Job Openings are for specific skills that we traditionally call 'Information Technology'. There is NO 'Business' type jobs. The only Non-IT jobs in that sense may be in mature industries like Accounting, Industrial Chemistry, Power Plant Maintenance, Law, Medicine, Automotive Industry etc. Learning the skill set that are in demand is challenging but the rewards are incomparable.Also, there are NO entry level jobs unless they are call center associate types. A proficient automation tester who starts a first job (**cough cough** with ** experience) will definitely earn at par or more than a tenured Professor of American Studies.