I'm seriously thinking about going back to university for another degree. I can probably even con my employer into paying for it. I do, however, have some concerns. Given that it's been five years since I graduated the first time, do I really want to go back? Especially if I'll be working full time while doing it? If I don't go back, am I doomed to banking forever? If I'm not using the two degrees I currently have, how likely is it that I'll use a third? If I do go back to school, how will it further my goal of moving out of the country?
Not that I expect anyone to provide sufficient answers to my concerns, I just thought I'd throw them out there in the hopes of sparking some conversation.
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If ur a lazy bugger then i wouldn't ...
If ur a lazy bugger then i wouldn't recommend it.
Im layzie but my employer will be ...
Im layzie but my employer will be paying for my studies so if its free go for it..your layziness does go away when you know shit has to be done.
How about studying just because you ...
How about studying just because you want to learn some more stuff?
Yeah..study cos it will enhance your ...
Yeah..study cos it will enhance your lifestyle..we hate looking to the future but when we use time wisely we get to where we want eventually..EVENTUALLY IS THE KEY WORD.
What do you wanna study? something ...
What do you wanna study? something shitty and "practical" like Commerce, or a head-expander like philosophy? how would another degree help you leave- unless you moved elsewhere to study?
I'm sure you weren't expecting me to ...
I'm sure you weren't expecting me to reply to this thread....
In some ways, unless you want to something which requires very specific training (like medicine, law, or engineering) a further degree is probably not going to enhance your employability a great deal. You already have the skills to learn and acquire and apply new knowledge. Thus, I think it would just be more about an insatiable lust for knowledge. I've been occasionally tempted to take other 'interest' papers. Actually I've done two since I've been post-grad. The language learning one was worth it, as it's much easier to learn a language in a structured environment. The theology of atheism was kind of interesting, but I think my time would have been better spent on reading up on it a bit more. I'm pleased I didn't formally enrol for that one as I didn't have to study for it or write essays. The only advantage is that my reading in the area was guided by the lecturer rather than me having ot work out what to read.
Also, if it's through work, will there be some constraints on what you are allowed to take which may make it not worth it?
//I'm not using the two degrees I currently have
I don't actually know what your current degrees are, but I'm a bit of the advocate of the Jane Kelsey university idea. Learning at university is about questions which have no answers, whereas polytech is for questions with answers (which begs the question of why medicine is a university degree, but we won't go into that). To the end that it should teach you how to think and not what to think; the content of your degrees is relatively irrelevant. You are probably using some of the skills you acquired at university, but not neccessarily the knowledge.
I thought I had a point there somewhere ....
Well, I have degrees in ...
Well, I have degrees in English/Linguistics (and I think you knew that) and education; and insomuch as I'm a writer, I suppose I use the English degree. I would like to go back for a degree in journalism, which would complement the first two very well I think, and make it easier for me to get a work permit in a foreign country while still doing something I relatively enjoy.
As for learning for the sake of, I'm currently teaching myself Latin, among other subjects, in my pursuit of utter dilettantism.
I don't think I knew about the ...
I don't think I knew about the education. Or at least I forgot. Can you find a post-grad journalism thing in the US? Here, I think one of the most usual ways is to do an arts degree of some sort, and then do a one year course, which is pretty much the ticket. I'd hope you wouldn't have to start from square one.
//latin
I should introduce you to one of my friends. He has a thing for dead languages: latin, ancient greek, sanscrit, gothic, biblical hebrew, hieroglyphics etc.
I'd actually just be doing a third ...
I'd actually just be doing a third undergrad, for the purpose of making it easier for me to get a work permit. It would take me less than a year to complete, based on what I already have, and would be relatively inexpensive as well, as work would cover tuition.
I do, of course, intend to do post-grad at some point in my life. But that would be more for the sake of learning than financial betterment, as I'd be doing it in sociolinguistics.
I was only recommending a post-grad ...
I was only recommending a post-grad option as shorter. If you can do journalism in a year as undergrad then go for it. Under our system, you'd probably be up for 2-3 years the undergrad way.
As for sociolinguistics. Well, actually, I really shouldn't comment.
//I'd actually just be doing a third ...
//I'd actually just be doing a third undergrad, for the purpose of making it easier for me to get a work permit. It would take me less than a year to complete, based on what I already have, and would be relatively inexpensive as well, as work would cover tuition.
Sounds like it might be a pretty good option, then ... under a year for a one-half improvement to your qualifications!
Velocity I love you and want to have ...
Velocity I love you and want to have your babies. For I, too, have decided that maybe, just maybe, I should walk down the halls of scholarship once more and finally get my degree. It is a revelation as this will be the first time I have taken advice from my mother.
Go back to school kid. You'll learn how to spell and become an intellectualist. I have already bought my own lunch box.
Who knows, we could end up study buddies!
U two sound quite old......
U two sound quite old...
Hook yourself up with email ...
Hook yourself up with email address..keep it off thread please.
Yeah, go for it. My dad was 54 when he ...
Yeah, go for it. My dad was 54 when he went to university and did his MBA. I don't really think age should be an issue if its something you want to do.
Um, age was never the issue. I'm not ...
Um, age was never the issue. I'm not old.
On a totally unrelated note, I just made the absolute best butter chicken ever. mmm.
Just for the record - I ain't old ...
Just for the record - I ain't old either
The definition with old is 'Cant ...
The definition with old is 'Cant really walk, tired easily, wrinkles, slow speech, talking bout stuff that doesn't really matter...Old is 60 to me'.
well yeah kind of unrelated ;) but it ...
well yeah kind of unrelated ;) but it had been what, 30 years since he had done any kind of education whatsover? and mmm butter chicken!
I commend any person over 40 who ...
I commend any person over 40 who studies. That shit is really philosophical in my eyes.
I admire a person who keeps living their daily to enhance ones self.
I say go for it. Judge your bills and ...
I say go for it. Judge your bills and stuff, and you may be better off studying full time, and working part time. I'm doing uni next year too at auckland, and i have a few loans and stuff - but i'm aiming to have them consolodated and able to be paid off over 3 or more years. I think it really depends how much you want it, and if you want to go oversea's, will it help you?
But i'd suggest doing it now before any more debt piles up, cos i know that's a bitch to keep up with.
Go for it if you want it. :o)