<p>I am actually majoring in business administration , and i would like to be an executive manager of a company such as Cosmopolitan or an important hospital but i don't really feel that i have that strong and out-going personality that some managers have .. got me ? I am friendly and i care about other's feelings and how others feel about me and my work sometimes but i dont have that "kind of personality" managers and executive have and that really throws me off because i do want to succeed in life and i don't wanna realize that at the end of my career, when i graduate that i chose the wrong career for me .</p>
<p>Thanks in advanced for any advises,anything said would be appreciate.</p>
<p>What college did you go to? The value of your business degree really depends on the college you earned it from.</p>
<p>i havent graduated yet second year at Rutgers in NJ</p>
<p>You’ve raised a lot of questions, but I’ll try to address all of them. </p>
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<li>A business degree does NOT entitle you to an executive position. Unless you found your own start-up, becoming an executive is difficult and time-consuming. If you join an established company after college, you’ll have to work hard and slowly climb the corporate ladder before you become an executive at the company. Don’t think that a “management education” entitles you to actually do any managing.</li>
<li>The vast majority of college students, including yourself, have no idea what being an executive entails. You’ve never been responsible for a large organization so don’t act like you know what such a position would feel like. I can assure you that its impossible for you to judge whether or not you’re “qualified” to be a manager. Jack Welch, one of the greatest managers of all time, did his PHD in Chemistry before joining GE. He had none of the typical management credentials (like an MBA) but still proved to be an excellent executive.</li>
<li>There is no such thing as a “management personality.” Anyone can be a manger, anyone can be good at it, and anyone can prove absolutely abysmal in such a capacity. Good managers do not have to be outgoing and do not need a “strong personality” (whatever that means). </li>
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<p>tl;dr - You don’t know what being an executive is like so don’t assume that you’re incapable of doing the job.</p>
<p>Yeah being the head of a business is taxing. I know the owners of a few large local businesses and its horrible to hear some stories from them. Im from NJ and they’re well known locations on the shore.</p>
<p>The “it” personality is a development thing. Out of college you will start out at the bottom (if lucky) and noone will expect the “it” personality. However, they will expect the “eager, competent, and willing to get along” personality.</p>
<p>so how to make money w/o being the head lol? of course staying in the business field</p>
<p>^ Go into finance?</p>
<p>I don’t understand, why me?</p>
<p>Then again, Fate16, you’re not even in college. So how would you know what being an executive entails? And how could you generalize that about college students? Sounds pretty elitist to me. I go to a biz school that is ranked as highly (if not higher in a few cases) than CMU, and they’d surely have a few things to say about that comment.</p>
<p>^ Once again, I apologize for not being specific. When I said “executive,” I was referring to executives on the scale that the OP described. While there are a couple of students who’ve founded businesses and non-profits, very few of them are on the scale of “Cosmopolitan” magazine. Also, you’re missing my larger point, which is that good managers can come from anywhere. You won’t be a bad manager if you don’t study business (as the OP seemed to think) and the reverse is also true.</p>