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I mean don't get me wrong, grad school isn't for everyone. You need to do a strong assessment of what you plan on doing with that grad degree. It's not a free meal ticket for every field. Remember that undergrad is where you pick the general area you want to work, graduate work and beyond is where you specialize. Do the math for what entry level bachelors degrees net you, and then compare them to graduate. Then do the same for the equivalent journeyman rating. Plan out at least five years.
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Another thing to take note is that there's a recession coming. 100%. When the axe comes it's going to come swift and it's going to come hard, and it's gonna be bad. When it happens, it'll be some of the people at the top and almost all of the people at the bottom. The people left in the middle will be expected to pick up the slack.
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May 14, 2019 03:45
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Approximately 3% of people that qualified for student loan forgiveness have received it. It's a hell of a gamble that I wouldn't personally consider.
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McNally posted:So the good news is that, if push comes to shove, I can file a FAFSA and get a student loan for whatever the GI Bill won't pay for my master's program. That's what I did. I got my undergraduate and half my graduate degree for free. Then I paid for the last year + living expenses out of loans, which added up to almost 50k.
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Generally speaking having the degree within the next six months is acceptable unless they're real sticklers about it. Some places most certainly are, so don't be surprised if they turn you down.
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Aug 2, 2019 22:29
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You can generally walk up to a year early, depending on policy. I think at my school it was >91 credits for students enrolled full time.
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Aug 3, 2019 14:49
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I skipped walking both times and both times my mom +grandma were PISSED. I was the only one to graduate from college, let alone grad school, so I didn't realize how big of a deal it was to_other_people. Whoops.
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Aug 4, 2019 02:49
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get an mba i leave it to you, dear reader, to determine just how ironic i am in that statement
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Aug 5, 2019 04:05
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You can update it on benefits.va.gov or something like that. If you get paid VA disability it goes there by default.
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Aug 9, 2019 01:54
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You can only convert your MGIB to Post 9/11, it's a one way, one time deal.
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Sep 4, 2019 21:28
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Grad school is probably twice as busy as undergrad. Except you know all your expectations well ahead of time but poo poo happens anyway and you end up sacrificing to the old gods to get your projects done.
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Dec 2, 2019 22:29
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Yes.
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Jan 17, 2020 23:36
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Work requires 2 years regardless of dollar amount after paying up. Prorated, fortunately. I get 10k a year now.
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Non-professional honors societies are basically worthless. Professional ones aren't that much better, but it depends on your field and experience. If I have two identical candidates (meaning they're both fresh grads and so on) and one has an honor's society and the other doesn't, I'll probably opt for the one with. But that's it, the chances of someone going "gently caress me! Alpha Kappa Delta Honor's Society?! we gotta hire them!" is basically zero.
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Now it is your turn to study statistical mechanics. edit: context 
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It depends wildly on the field, the school, and the candidate's base experience. Almost to the point where it's silly to try and pick it apart. There's some online schools which will accomplish the mission of getting you a degree, a real degree. That's what a place like UMUC is. But it's *just* a degree, it's not going to open any networking opportunities like a magic spell. If that's what you need, and what you know you need, it does that job nicely.
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Mar 11, 2020 23:07
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i will never go back to school
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May 1, 2020 15:13
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I have my MS, my PMP, and my LSSBB. I'm done with collecting acronyms.
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May 1, 2020 16:07
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You probably gotta leave Florida and go to a state that has jobs.
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GD_American posted:PMP worth it in non-construction/engineering fields? Guy that was on my team throughout the MBA course is an ad exec up in Birmingham and he's been wanting to get it since we took Project Management in the first semester. So the PMP doesn't really teach you proper project management skills. It teaches you the PMI (Project Management Institute, the certifier) way of doing things, which is hilariously disconnected from reality. But the point of the PMP isn't really to teach you project management, it's to show everyone you have a PMP. It's a gatekeeper certification in a lot of industries, especially anything involving contracts or a situation where HR is the one writing a job requisition. I got mine specifically because almost every position above analyst in my field has it written into the contracts that you must have it. It's the same with the LSSBB. I went and got it because an RFI had come out for a contract I really wanted. I was bid key in the response. The client determined they wanted to do a full RFP, and when that dropped the position I was bid for had the credentials changed to include LSSBB. I didn't have it, so I was taken out of the RFP for that position and a much weaker candidate that had it was put in. We didn't win the contract; and while there was more at play than just that credential swap it certainly didn't help. So I went and got it (from a place that doesn't have an expiration) so I'll never be in that situation again. I've had it for well over a year at this point and have yet to use a single goddamn thing about it. If you can get someone else to shell out the ~5k (each) for the certifications, I would say gently caress it, why not. But I absolutely would not pay for it myself.
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