Advice - Career

Hi All,

Thank you for taking the time to answer this post. It has been a year since I graduated, and I am having a tough time landing a position. I opted to run my own business instead of doing a junior year internship. I am considering three avenues and would love input from fellow monkeys. Entrepreneurship isn’t valued in corp America?

Avenue 1 - Master's Degree (Try to get approval for part-time) so I can continue operating my business and recruit full-time.

Avenue 2- Focus on scaling my startup for a year and apply to MBA programs. My concern is that AI is going to make entry-level roles extinct over the course of the next 3 years. ( I would have to take loans)

Avenue 3- Continue the hunt.

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