I would agree with this. It’s not about the knowledge, but impressing people. As long as it’s from a T5 school, I think an MBA will help you as long as you plan to go into a role where people are impressed by it.

I don’t know much about the boot camps though, so can’t comment.

Potentially yes. I would first decide what you want to do. If you want to end up in a leadership role I would go the MBA route. If you can swing it, go full-time. You will have better networking opportunities, internships, etc. I don’t think the part-time students are as successful in changing careers. Personally, I don’t know that an MBA was worth $120K in terms of knowledge, but they are the new bachelor’s degree in banking, consulting, etc.

If you go the software route you will probably never starve and make decent money. The top dollars are on the West Coast though. The FANGs are paying around $100K + 100K signing bonus + $100K stock grants over 4 years for the best new undergraduates but it’s not enough to know how to code. You have to be really smart and they will actually watch you write code as part of the interview process. But if you qualify and get promoted and move into tech management then you can make shitloads of money.

Is it worth pursuing a Kellogg or booth MBA? Or should I consider coding bootcamps/ CSS masters? I know some coding, but I ultimately want to end up in leadership roles…

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expressed with stagnant wages therein and lack of inflation

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Assets are priced to perfection. Does Chicago warrant GZ properties up 20-25% in the last two years?

“Rich folks won’t go away, and I’m looking to improve / maintain my own privilege, but keep your eyes open that there are many clear resemblances to other recessions, and this one has new rhyming elements that are much worse.”

I hate the argument that there are all these people who are unemployed and they’ve waited 10 years to find jobs (somehow buying food, clothing and paying for their housing all that time) so the economy sucks.

It doesn’t.

We’re basically at full employment. In many areas, there are shortages. We have a skills miss-mash between some of those jobs and people who are looking. We need retraining for many people whose jobs are being lost to technology or outsourcing and are never coming back.

We no longer have blacksmiths. I don’t understand why everyone thinks we will have the same jobs we have today another 20 years from now.

And as for “clear resemblences to other recessions” please tell us what those are?

Recessions are caused by excesses. Speculation. Distortions in the economy. Have we ever had a Fed with this current balance sheet? EVER???

Have we ever had the largest generation in US history heading into retirement?

Have we ever had an economy that was over 80% service sector?

Have we ever had a recession when we had jobs like “social media director” or “SEO specialist” both jobs which didn’t exist during the last recession?

No two recessions are alike.

Is there some speculation starting to appear in the economy? Sure. Is it anywhere even close to 1999 or 2007? Not even close. Not even 50% of a close.

Maybe you all don’t remember people buying pre-construction condos, closing on them, and re-selling them to someone new when the building closed for $100k or more?

What about waiting in line to buy a condo?

What about the mortgage fraud?

How about people who owned 5+ condos? Because, after all, they only went up?

Come on. If you’re so sure some of the signs today are the same as other recessions, please tell us. Are people making $1,000 in an hour trading Facebook shares like they did with Qualcomm back in 1999? Are IPOS going from $10 to $50 on the first day of trading? Are there record numbers of IPOs?

Please. Lay it on us. What is so similar?

Yes- the economy will have another recession. But unless more speculation shows up in the economy, it’s not likely to happen any time soon.

As anyone knows who lived through 1999 and 2007 can attest, the risk taking and speculation can build for MANY years before bursting. We’re not even close to those levels.

If we get a recession soon, it will be shallow.

“I remember the 2002 recession vividly. Probably why I am so freaking conservative with money.”

Russ- the only people who remember it were you, the lawyers who were laid off but quickly found new jobs, and those in Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley.

For the rest of the country, it just wasn’t that severe. It was a blip. Yeah- the NASDAQ started its multi-year crash. And then we had 9/11 which slowed the economy.

But it really wasn’t that bad for most. Heck, the early 1990s recession had bigger national impact.

A true deep recession was graduating from Kellogg in 2008 and going 3 years without finding a job. It was nothing compared to 2008-2009. NOTHING.

What happened in Silicon Valley was that everyone who moved there for the boom, left. They were all in their 20s anyway. They all found new jobs rather quickly. Mostly within 4 to 6 months.

“Even though we hit a 10 year high in sales growth is anemic. Sales were up 1.7% last month but IAR is going to say that sales were down 1.7%. Inventory keeps falling.”

If inventory is still falling, then prices will continue to rise.

Buy now or be priced out forever.

“What’s your evidence for that claim?”

It’s all anyone ever talked about, oh, say, 10 years ago when it started to bust.

You can search this blog for your “evidence.” Go back to 2008-2010 time period to find the articles.

“Meanwhile, there are barely any houses to buy in oak brook.”

I haven’t looked lately so I don’t know if that’s true. But the houses in the Midwest Club were on the market for YEARS. Who wants a 7,000 square foot house built 25 years ago that has had NO updating? Who wants to pay for a gated community- with all those fees?

But maybe they are selling outside of the gated communities. I know some of the townhouse subdivisions were popular.