Success From My Business Degree

When I graduated from high school I knew I wanted to be impressive but I wasn’t quite sure what. I had muddled ideas on what my life would look like in the future but no clear plan on where my destination was or the tools I needed to get there. I knew that I should get a degree but I didn’t know what academic concentration to focus on or if it was really important at that point. I found the whole process of degree selection a bit frustrating and felt like I wasn’t sure which direction to begin. I had never had a serious job before and my interests were limited so it was difficult to narrow down what felt like a life-long commitment. Therefore, I decided to put my academic needs on hold and see if I could successfully go out into the workplace and thrive without any formal education.

It didn’t take long before discovering that I really enjoyed working in the corporate environment. The big buildings, elegant offices, board rooms, and everything that occurred within the walls that held them together, fascinated me. However, what I didn’t enjoy was the low-level position I was hired into, nor the difficulty I had moving to the next level. I was gaining skills in my job but every time there was an opening for a promotion, someone with a better education would beat me out. It appeared at that pace I might get promoted eventually but it may take me three times as long and I was starting to grow impatient with the idea that people I had been training were moving past me. I finally made the decision to go back to school and get a degree in business. Surprisingly, upon returning to school I found that I had a different interest level then I had before as I now realized what was at stake. My education began to look less like a fact finding mission and more like the pursuit of map to my opportunities. Moreover, the journey to obtaining my degree slowly gave me a different point of view. It is a subtle but notable difference in my approach to decisions, conflict, learning, and growing. Even if I only remembered one piece of information from a course, the ideas were imprinted in my cognitive processes and changed the directions of my thinking.

I found that after acquiring my Bachelor degree in Business my requests for a promotion were taken more seriously by my superiors. Now, I not only have the job experience, I also have the degree to match the performance I know I am capable of. I am an asset to the company and I feel a greater sense of job security as well as financial growth. I am grateful that I made the choice to pursue my Business education and when I look ahead at where I might be in five years I have a clear idea of what I need to do to get there and what it will take to achieve my goals.