Career development

Question

Well, I'm not quite sure whether this is the right place to put this one. Essentially, I was looking for a place to post career development questions, and couldn't find one.
Right, so I've been an Oracle SCM functional consultant for around 6 years now,from Consultant to Team Lead, and am getting kinda bored with it. More than monotony, the fact that many people all around me have the same profile irritates me like anything. I've always wanted to do something exclusive, but am not sure where to start from. Basically, I want to use these 6 years of experience to get into something niche. It doesn't necessarily have to be entirely technical/functional. or entirely managerial. Can be a bit of both, actually. I've not yet done an MBA, so if doing an MBA helps me in reaching this goal, that's fine with me as well.
In a nutshell, I would like to get into something which the world needs more of, and cannot get in plenty, and at the same time use these 6 years of experience.* Doing an MBA was an option, but even post MBA, I would land up with a manager's job, and aren't there millions of managers already around?
Would require pointers from experts, please. I'm from India, if that helps in any way.
thanks!!

Answer 1

bigdelboy wrote:
Again here is a differentiation of MBA schools, agree or disagree with the details and the opinionation, the argument is food for thought. http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_poor_quality_diploma_mill_mba_schools.htm
I believe this reference is US specific, the situation will typically be the same wiht other countries, eg the UK, with perhaps different accrediting bodies.
Edited by: bigdelboy on Jun 16, 2011 10:07 PM (Converted from a duplicate post).Yes, if nothing else, DKB is entertaining. I think he does make some good points, though I have the impression all his posts on the subject are merely marketing fluff to justify his rates for his consultants. The San Marcos State university mentioned in the comment is close to where I live (we usually call it Cal State San Marcos), and I've worked with a number of people who have gone there, including as a DBA for a dev team at a startup ,who all went there including their manager. They put out quality grads, too bad startup upper management was snotty USC kids who missed the proper opportunities. Nearby used to be one campus of the National University mentioned in [url http://www.degreeinfo.com/off-topic-discussions/3560-losing-gaining-regional-accreditation.html]this thread, where I took some MBA classes in the '90s. I've found those classes to be very useful, personally, since I so often have to translate between MBA-speak about non-IT departments and technical requirements.
I speculate this applies even more so to India. They are going through boom times with [url http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-14/tata-consultancy-hires-70-000-employees.html]extremely rapid growth, which is fertile ground for scams. I wonder if the companies are ready yet for some experienced worker to say "Hey, I'm ready to move up in the world, why don't you send me to MBA school so you can have someone ready for your future growth." But I think most workers in that environs would just play musical chairs until the music stops (aka job-hopping until cheaper labor in other third world countries takes the business away).
The thing about business schools is they (hopefully) teach about managing cash, the usual problem in the startups that appear when the big boys crash and start firing lahks of employees.