Should I Even Think About Grad School Yet?

Hey everyone.

I'm in my junior year at UNCG in North Carolina and am apart of the their Bryan School of Business. A lot my senior friends have been talking frequently about grad school, and I've given it some thought, fretting over if I should go MBA, MA in Econ, MS in Finance, etc.

But I was wondering today if I should even be worrying about which one/grad school in general. I was thinking that I should just let my employer/career path dictate what I get. If I am in a situation where I am becoming an associate at a BB, then I'll get the graduate degree necessary. If my career path allows me not to get a graduate degree, then I won't.

So I'm just wondering if I have the right mindset in just allowing my career path to tell me what I should do about graduate school or if I need to know how everything will go.

Thanks.

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