I am in it. I am making money but not as much as I hope. But I see with my own eye that as long as you work up the requirement MA keeps what it promises. The only difference between your friend and the successful ones is your friend didn't persist enough. Like anything else if you don't word hard enough you won't make it!! As Chairman Mao said "If you want to know how a pear tastes eat it" You have to experience it then say "yes' or "no". Just like you came to Canada then you know how it is like. It is not a heaven not a hell either. Successful people just did what unsuccessful people didn't do or what they are not willing to do.