1 More Year Until Grad School ...

Hi. I've been lurking on this website for the last couple months now, and finally just decided to jump right into it! I'm finishing my military service in the next month, but didn't make it into the Top Ten grad school I wanted (I think my 530 gmat score had something to do with it...) But! I'm studying using Veritas and my practice tests are now at a 650. I'm a slow learner, but it's good to work hard at something. So with that in mind over the next several months I plan to continue studying until I can get that glorious 700+ score. From there I'll have plenty of time to apply to all of the top ten schools to ensure I get into a legitimate MBA program for 2018 and figure out where the money and passion leads me.

In the mean time, having spent/enjoying the majority of my service abroad in Korea (deployments are tedious to come by nowadays) I'm looking for a job to tide me over. Ultimately I don't think it matters what I do for the next year until I get accepted into a MBA program, but I'm fresh coming out of the system and eager for ya'lls expert advice: finding jobs in Korea vs finding jobs in New York, contracting jobs, or intro level business jobs I can get? Getting paid well isn't the priority if it means I could get a job that 'demonstrates value'.

I've attached my resume so ya'll can tear it apart if you feel like it. I took the advanced math courses so my 3.2 GPA is a bit crap. Otherwise I'm not here to mooch just point me in the right direction.

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