Waaaaaaay back in the deep recesses of the Dot Com Bust, but before the company I had worked for had gone under, I was in a panic. I couldn't accept the cliff that I was approaching, much less the inevitable freefall that was to follow. I bought a pile of GMAT study guides and pored over them during my lunch hours. I hated math, but I figured that re-learning algebra was preferable to being unemployed without fallback. A business degree would be like a suit of armor that would protect me from the recessions that affected the less-marketable folk.