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Jeff,

I hear you but disagree....
Architecture is what YOU make of it...its is such a wide profession (in the true sense) of the word that you can do whatever you want and enjoy it.

There are no limits as to what you can do in the profession, be it technical, managerial, financial, in 'sales', in 'politics', in debt.. always..

The ethos you bring to your work ends up being the defining character of where you end up working and with whom.

But to get back to the OP... college education is never wasted if you are doing what you love and can either at the time or later extract the right lessons from it.

I spent 10+ years in higher education.. had I not done so I would not have been able to do what I have done professionally. The door simply would not have opened as hte projects I have worked on are one off never to be repated jobs...the conjuncture of client and site and brief were unique and whilst there are similar jobs I would not have missed them for the world (well the majority of them anyway).

So I wouldn't hesitate to 'do it all' again.. there are events that happened along side that I would NOT repeat.. but that is more 'life' than education.

I'd keep the MBA for later on... the time you spend actually working at what you love will give you a better perspective on why you are doing an MBA .. and give you more motivation to get it done.

But the 5 years I spent in 'education' in the US.. I'd do again in a heart beat (it did help that relatively the course was 'easy' leaving me with plenty of time to push the envelope and have a good time outside college)...

Mind you I'd not want to work in the US as an architect!