What's your view of "start business in the college"?
414125
It must be very good. Mainly if you are in administration college. After all, why are you in college? Isnt it to own money? So, why not start it right now? \n\nThe only problem is that to start a business, you need money... thing that you usually dont have on college
907047
I'm about to embark on that at the moment. I have 4 children and they are all at school now. I am currently studying at college for my business administration certificate 3 and then I can do more courses as I see fit to build my skills. I have worked and owned my own business before but had a break to raise the kids. I am hoping to get a job in 2007. Good Luck and happy juggling work and home.
1085564
Bad idea. That is what I have and never helped me with getting jobs. Better to specialize somewhat but still keep is somewhat broad like a BA or BS in Business, economics, etc.. Employers seem to like that better I have found.
625668
i you love doing it then that is all that matters, college doesn't garunte you a place in the career world. I myself love my job but my family wants me to go to college. So i signed up for pulaski tech, its a community college. that is the best way to go, its the cheapest, get your basics at a community, and you get this little diploma thing, then if you feel like goin to actual college more power to you. but you don't have to quit, there are night classes, on-line classes, corespondence classes (which i highly recommend)
1165078
Its a tremendous responsibility, but well worth it.  You learn how to get yourself up in the mornings, pay your bills each month, meet lots of new people, etc.  You don't want to live with your parents forever, and going to college is a great place to "test your wings."  You can always transfer to a smaller college closer to home if you find you took on too much too soon.\n\nGood luck!
426591
I had a very successful mowing/landscaping operation going all through high school.  It wasn't glamorous, but I made a ton of money; enough to put me through college debt free.  I had three employees and about $25000 worth of equipment when I sold the business at graduation.\nIt's a good one if you're dedicated to working hard.
1160516
Not necessarily, especially if you are the type of person who can start a business and make a success of it or if you are very creative or enterprising.  However, if you are counting on being employed by someone else the college degree will make a lot of difference - hundreds of thousands of $$$$ probably over your lifetime.  And it is something no one can take away from you ... once you have it, you have it.  It will open far more doors for you than will be open without the degree.
592591
There's no quick answer to this questions, unfortunately.  Going to college is worth it if you want to be a doctor or an engineer, but not worth it for business.\n\nI have a batch in business, and no, it is not worth the money I spent on it.  However, college was a learning experience for me in general.  I grew up while I was there, and I don't think I could have held down a job such as I have now without the experience.  I just wish it hadn't been so expensive.\n\nI went to Cuesta College (a Comm College) for 3 years and Cal Poly SLO for 2 years and finally went online for the actual degree.  The first two were excellent for schooling, the online not so much.
459744
Yes...I'm a college professor in business (marketing).
339624
I can safely say that my MBA did help me a great deal with my career. My boss likes me because I am able to construct very comprehensive but easy to read reports. So, I use my grad degree. My college degree was a B.A. in History and it hasn't done anything. Only 40% of college grads end up working in their field. That is partly the fault of the students, and partly the fault of the colleges. If you graduate with a business degree and you don't have well developed Excel and quantitative business skills.... then you're going to be pretty worthless in most entry level positions. And that's the fault of the colleges. But if you go to college and you don't want to be "number cruncher", then guess what... 90% of the jobs are just that. Certain degrees like education, engineering, some of the applied sciences are very specific and will give you the foundation for doing the job in those fields. But, if you get a B.A. and go into business, then... of course your college degree won't mean anything, but that's probably because you didn't know what you wanted to be until after you graduated. If I had to do it over again, I would have been a mechanic, tile installer, or a plumber. They make more money than I do, and I have an MBA.
1022573
It depends on you and how you like to learn. I enjoy seeing the other students and the teacher so a correspondence course isn't my cup of tea. Someone who prefers independent learning would do best in a correspondence course.\n\nA lot MBA and business work is group oriented so the traditional way may be good in that it could lead to future networking contacts. That is part of school.
1187671
I'd sell the car, go with GC, move somewhere close by campus, get a cheap bicycle from somewhere and live in comfort because I would have the peace of mind that the better grades you're going to get as a resault from the smaller class size is going to bring you better oppertunities. I did it and I am much better off for it and I owed almost next to nothig by the time I got a career (not a job), you know what I mean. A lot of people think it's all about partying but it's not, those days are long over for people that are serious about their education and the rest of their lives.
1000903
I suggest you major in Business at your college, because you get to learn not only about finance (stocks and investing), but you also learn about marketing, accounting, and managing your own business.
207675
It depends on how much money you need.  In college I would always sell clothes to the stores like Wasteland or sell back textbooks whenever I needed quick cash.
483120
It's easier to teach business concepts to people who have had previous experience in industry.  There's quite a bit of class participation and group work.  Those who have had work experience will excel in these areas while those who have just been students might not do as well.
1018806
1) Fortune is a business magazine and each year it ranks the 500 largest companies based on the previous year's revenue.  You will also hear about the Fotune 1000 which includes the next 500.  It is a great business magazine: you should check it out along with Business Week.\n2) Yes.  It will be harder to get a high level job without college but you should try to break in as soon as you can with an entry level position or internship.  It will help you focus your college studies and/or give you something good on your resume for when you later try for a higher level position.  There is "book smarts" and "street smarts" and the sooner you get a job, the sooner you can work on your street smarts.\n3) A supervisor has to instruct, guide, schedule and review the work of his or her staff and be responsible for everything they do.  For example my boss gives me certain tasks to do every month and it takes 500 hours to do it all.  There are not 500 working-hours in a month but I supervise 3 people.  So I split the work up, tell everybody what to do, how to do it, and when I need it back.  Then I do some of it and they do the rest.  They give it to me and I make sure they did it right (answering questions along the way) then I give a summary to my boss.  My boss has other people working for him so he doesn't want to deal with all the details: that is my responsiblity.  And he interacts with his boss the same way.  All the way up to the president, who is responsible for everything that happens in the company.  The CEO is different: the CEO sets the strategy and vision for the company which the president is supposed to implement.  The CEO does not supervise anyone directly or do day-to-day tasks.  Supervisors make sure staff are doing things right; the CEO makes sure everyone is doing the right thing.  The CEO decides what the company will make or sell, who to sell it to, a general strategy for selling it, how to acquire the resources to make it, etc.
1069101
Most of the people I know who have gotten a degree in management got that degree because they had no idea what they wanted to be when they grew up!  With a degree in management you can do just about anything in the business world.  So with that degree you are covered in most cases.  I personally would never get a business degree of any kind.  But that's because I know what I want.  I am sure that is not true in all cases, some people really want to go into business management and that's great, but for the most part, in what I have seen, it is a lack of a goal that people get this degree.