Alright, so I have been on here for about six months, and have enjoyed/wasted lots of time. I am in a big rut in my life. 31 y/o, grew up under a single mother with a sister, in the military (U.S. if that matters) so I moved a lot as a kid, joined the military a few years after HS for six years, got a BS degree in Electronic Engineering Technology, got a job as an engineer technician making $65-80k/year. I am now making more money than I thought I would when I was leaving HS. I HATE MY JOB. I HATE MY DEGREE. It’s not at all a bad job, a great career in fact, but I resent my degree and job, because I wish I would have gotten a BS in EE instead of EET…apparently what I didn’t know before starting college was that the word Technology at the end of a phrase makes it a technician job instead of an actual engineer job. Oh, and then I found out near the end of college that while my school was accredited, it didn’t have the ABET certification, which makes it less desirable. Now, I am not going to complain about “being screwed over,” because I made my path. My job is in manufacturing, so the college and degree did pay off, and gave me an options. When I grew up, it was always going to be the military, nothing else. So I didn’t care about school, finished with something like a 1.2-1.7 GPA (finished my BS with a 3.5 GPA). I never even considered college, as of now, I am the first and only one in my family to get a degree, or even do more than one semester of college. (White privilege right?). When I started college, I had no idea what to do, or what I should look at when it came to colleges, so I was very ignorant, and truly had no one to give me advice or direction on what I should be focused on, as I was literally the only one in my circle of people who wanted to go to college or didn’t want to be an officer in the military. That said, I loved my time in the military, loved the leadership position I had, loved serving the ones below me, and leading a team/squad/section. I don’t want to continue with the career path I am on now. I’ve thought about opening a business, and have even made up some business proposals with research that would show how it could work and be profitable after a number of years, but none of which I am motivated or really interested in doing. While I believe I could make it work, I am just not passionate in any of the ideas I have come up with. Which only have come about because of the few business classes I took in college, the teachers, two of which owned their own businesses, said my business plans and proposals for theoretical loans, were much better than that of the students going for a business degree. So, here I am three years removed from college, hating life, lost all motivation, planning on leaving my job in a pursuit of a MBA, just because I have no clue wtf I want. Also, I have no debt, and outside of a couple of retirement investments, no real money saved up, though before school is started, I should have around $15-20k…if it matters.
TL;DR High ambitions, low motivation, in a rut, want a new career, even if it means going back to school for a MBA to completely change directions, as it may open doors.