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Don't bother with an MBA course. Just go read "The Personal MBA" by Josh Kaufman. It covers the stuff business tracks do for MUCH cheaper. It'll save you a ton of money, and you can make a better investment. Seriously... grad school for business is NOT worth it. It wasn't worth it for undergrad, either.

I was a business major for undergrad. I'm kicking myself for not having just started with a CS major from the outset.

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I have that book, but have only skimmed it so far.

I don't know why everybody online keeps saying this. I haven't studied economics, but a full university degree cannot be just this superficial treatment of a zillion topics that the book provides. One page on profit. Two pages on the balance sheet. Three pages on pricing.

I just refuse to believe that.

I read "The Personal MBA".

I honestly wouldn't recommend it as a purchase. It's mostly definitions that you can skim through in an afternoon. There is a lot of pseudoscience/broscience in it, and the info on nutrition is wrong. Most of the important info of the book is in/only the first chapter.

I'm not advocating for an MBA either, but I think you'd get more value from the MBA network of a good program than a $20 book.

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