Grad school?

[KoolStar]

I can honestly say that I have a Masters Degree and it has done absolutely nothing for me regarding the tech industry.

 

[lowendlinux]

No, but it can lead to enhanced career opportunities, and greater personal (and professional - although not necessarily financial) satisfaction subsequently. You may be considered for positions that it might not have been possible to apply for otherwise, or, at the very least, you cannot be excluded if that is - of happens to be - the criterion on which they choose to recruit.

It was more tongue in cheek. She went from being a marketing lead for Carlo Colucci to teaching marketing. She gets to work her schedule so she can be home with our daughter and has much less stress which is good for her husbands mental health.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

It was more tongue in cheek. She went from being a marketing lead for Carlo Colucci to teaching marketing. She gets to work her schedule so she can be home with our daughter and has much less stress which is good for her husbands mental health.

Well, my mum went back to college when the three of us were at school, and still held down a job - she went to college nights, and was out to class several nights a week for a number of years while studying for the degree; the opportunity (and encouragement) had been lacking when she left school. Granted this was an undergrad degree, not grad school, but it was at a a time when not all that many people - and very few women - were graduates.

She loved studying, and hugely enjoyed her course; now, while she never actually worked in the field, she always said that it had given her the confidence to go for promotion a few years later, after her boss had died, when she was recommended to replace him.

 

[lowendlinux]

Well, my mum went back to college when the three of us were at school, and still held down a job - she went to college nights, and was out to class several nights a week for a number of years while studying for the degree; the opportunity (and encouragement) had been lacking when she left school. Granted this was an undergrad degree, not grad school, but it was at a a time when not all that many people - and very few women - were graduates.

She loved studying, and hugely enjoyed her course; while she never actually worked in the field, she always said that it had given her the confidence to go for promotion a few years alter, after her boss died, when she had been recommended to replace him.

School is good for the body, mind, and spirit but had we lived in the states she could not have continued. The grand total of my wife's education was about 8000 Euros and that includes binding and publishing of about 400 of her theses, my undergrad was roughly 3 times that not including books.