Ever notice how easy it is to come across pennies?
Ever notice how once everyone got their hands on the new X-box, Madden, iPhone – the price starts to drop?
Ever notice how once there is a lot of something – it isn’t as valuable?
People are going back to school to obtain higher education degrees in droves. While the job market is uncertain, money for school seems to still be endless and accessible, and for-profit schools are itching to get you enrolled and working toward your next degree.
It is getting to the point where a Masters means little. By little I mean, a buck or two more than the person without a Bachelors, and three or four bucks above a high school education. It is just like everything else: where there is plenty of something, it’s value decreases. The job market is being flooded with formally educated individuals therefore, employers no longer have to pay a premium for them.
With that in mind:
What makes you a premium employee?
And second:
How are you going to retain and demonstrate your value?
Those seem to be the two questions that matter most to our future success – versus: “what is your degree in?”
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The funny thing is, I never sought degrees for career purposes, I just really like school. And good thing, too, because fat lot of good these pieces of paper have done me…
Still, I won’t stop til I have at least 2 PhD’s; the degrees will look real pretty hung up in my cardboard box
@The Jaded NYer,
I love you Rocky. You crack me up! I’m kind of like you, I like learning, school not so much. Getting the right teacher with the right perspective is a strange balance.
I will likely not be going back to school, in this day and age, I’ve learned how to learn and I really don’t need school to teach me what I want to know – unless of course I decide to do something the state says I need to be certified to do. Then I will definitely go back.
Going to school just for a career (especially if the career is only about money) is a bad idea anyway
Awww, thanks babe! I love you MORE!! lol
I actually am sooooo all over the place that I use school for the discipline. When people ask if the MFA in writing was necessary, I say, “For me YES, because I needed the threat of a deadline, someone to hold me accountable, because I don’t listen to my own deadlines otherwise.”
And so it will be with the other degrees- I need that structure and due dates and serious repercussions (that horrifying failing grade that nerds like me hate) to keep my ass in motion.
I gotta work on my self-discipline.
*adds that to To Do list*