Guide to Online Education > Online Education In-Depth > Meet Real Online Students > Robin, MBA in IT Management
Name: Robin Bundy
Age: 40-ish
Marital Status: In a relationship
Quote: "Education is about giving you legitimacy in the world."
School: Capella University
Target: MBA in I.T. Management, in progress
Last year this time Robin was wearing a hardhat and boots and dreading the onset of another Michigan winter.
As a network manager for a small construction company, she had to set up remote offices on construction sites. Before she started making the offices wireless, she had to install cable from trailer to trailer.
It was an important job, without her the engineers would not have had the basic tools they needed to work—telephones, PDAs, or computers—but it was sometimes an uncomfortable one.
Without regard for cold, wind, rain, or snow Robin had to make the rounds servicing her customers, her co-workers.
Earning her bachelor's degree from Capella University in Information Technology last spring changed all that.
This year she won't have to gaze anxiously at the sky to gauge the weather as she plans her day. There will be no heavy lifting. There will be no stampede for the coffee truck as it hurtles by.
As she sits in her warm, dry cubicle in the high tech offices nestled amidst the vivid fall foliage New England is famous for, she muses about the biggest perk of her new job.
"Management actually cares about their employees," she says still somewhat stunned after two months on the job. She was tapped to join the company before she had even officially graduated.
"I can actually tell them what I'm thinking and I won't be fired." She deems the corporate culture of her new employer, "a very progressive environment."
"Everyone sits in some sort of cubicle—the president sits in a cubicle—and everyone works in teams."
As a technical support engineer, teamwork is key. Sometimes it takes several layers of teams to solve the problem a customer has.
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