re: Career advice needed---MBA vs. MAccy

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Overall, I would think you should go with the free MBA. Age isn't a huge factor, but I'd say it favors the fact that you shouldn't try to start your career over in accounting. Try to take any and all accounting courses you can that would maybe count towards the CPA and then see where you finish up. Maybe enroll in some more night classes after the MBA and take some distance learning courses. You'd be 35+ sitting for the CPA, but hey, if that's what you want, it won't hurt your career.

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I'm just trying to become more employable. I don't particularly have a love for accounting. My kids are getting to the age where moving really would be a big deal and in my industry (steel), I'd have to move to get to a similar sized company with similar stability as opposed to a small independent fabricator.

If I took electives, I'd have 12/30 hours of upper level accounting course required. I'd need to take 6 more classes and an ethics course to be eligible.

I just feel supply chain or sales is too general. Sales especially. It seems like when I was in my last job search there were so many "bullshite" sales jobs that it was hard to tell what was worth pursuing and what wasn't.

Maybe I could become more skilled in supply chain??? I"m not sure.