Know who should get an MBA? NOT YOU! Seriously. You've started to figure out it's bullshit. More than that, you've developed the sense that bullshit is undesirable. Know who should get an MBA? People who cherish the bullshit and can't wait to claim as big a portion of bullshit as they can stuff down their gullets. I won't tell you what to do, but I will caution you that the uneasy feeling you have about the corporate structure you inhabit is going to grow stronger the more you learn about it. There are other things you can do with your life. You're likely to enjoy them more. It's okay to spend some time figuring out what they are.
Today's bullshit: I missed a VA meeting. (It was at a different site than the one I'm located at and immediately before another, day-long meeting I wasn't invited to that most of my VA coworkers were. I didn't realize it was at a different site.) It was free breakfast and a meet-and-greet with some top exec. My VA boss doesn't care that I missed the meeting, but I spoke to my real boss and her disappointment that I didn't get "face time" with this exec was palpable. I don't give a shit about face time with your fucking top execs
compare and contrast. It's like this: Either you want to do this in which case you should get good at it, or you don't want to do this in which case you need to figure out what you do want to do. And you need to do it quickly. There's no point in treading water; time you spend in pursuit of someone else's goals is a gift to them and if they aren't worth giving gifts to, they aren't worth giving your time.
Yeah, well, I do like to yell at pabst and ask him why in the heck he thinks he wants to go into investment banking from time-to-time. Tentatively, this special project that I'm down here for could lead me to a new job [role] and a move to VA. It would be something. I've been talking about moving south for a long time.