[jonnathanson]

The kinds of doors that an MBA opens tend to be boring to folks who love to code, and vice versa. I say this as someone with an MBA degree -- acquired rather hastily, and for which I have occasional bouts of buyer's remorse -- who taught himself to code, but wishes that he'd just gone the pure-code path from the beginning.

If you want to be an investment banker or a consultant, and you aspire to nothing outside of those two streams, get the MBA and have at it. For almost any other endeavor imaginable -- be it professional or personal -- you're better off learning to code.