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Devian666
Aug 20, 2008

Take some advice Chris.

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Uncle Enzo posted:

I'd recommend against spending on further formal degree-seeking schooling. It's tempting coming from academia to see degrees as some kind of essential component of life, but honestly at this point you've got plenty of letters after your name, you've spent plenty of time and effort, just go with what you got as far as degrees go. If you want to get into InfoSec or whatever get all the Certs you want, mind you. It's still good to invest in yourself. If you're not happy in grad school now and you want to get working and moving on with your life, don't go back to school again.

I'm sorry to say but the days of just getting the right degree and getting a guaranteed job are over for all but a handful of specialties. If you had an undergrad in petroleum engineering, that'd be different, but you don't. Getting more school than you already have will make little to no difference in your employment prospects.

This. My perspective on obtaining degrees is that your life is on hold until you've finished studying. There are degrees that feed directly into fields with shortages. Other than those short courses (1-2 years) to give you enough skills to work in an area are sufficient.

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