Going back to school.....which to choose?

[Dyne]

seeing as how nothing has come of my current degree since december and ill need a decent paying job to move away anyway i got to thinking of going back to school. some of the local places hace associate degree programs in networking, system and network admin and database admin. seeing as how web based stuff is no longer the priority for a computer related field ive decided to look into one of these. thoughts, personal stories?

[Josh]

Learn a trade that is actually useful. Like being a mechanic.

All this white collar shit is overrated.

P.S. I went to school for networking. Got my A+, Net + and MCSE.

Now I work in a wearhouse. Keep this in mind...

[Schlep]

If you've already got your undergraduate, I would go for an MBA. It'll get you a higher paying job in your field, and if there are no jobs in your field (like during a recession), it's a lot easier to find a job because it's pretty universal.

[station82o]

Learn a trade that is actually useful. Like being a mechanic.

All this white collar shit is overrated.

P.S. I went to school for networking. Got my A+, Net + and MCSE.

Now I work in a wearhouse. Keep this in mind...

I agree, white collar industries are showing their limitations as well... don't forget, everyone needs a mechanic, construction worker or tradesman of somekind. College is getting to the point where it will no longer be relevant anymore, at least thats my theory.

I thoguht you worked in a cafe btw?

[Tracer]

Learn a trade that is actually useful. Like being a mechanic.

All this white collar shit is overrated.

P.S. I went to school for networking. Got my A+, Net + and MCSE.

Now I work in a wearhouse. Keep this in mind...

If there are truer words than these, I don't know any.

[Diff-chan]

I agree, white collar industries are showing their limitations as well... don't forget, everyone needs a mechanic, construction worker or tradesman of somekind. College is getting to the point where it will no longer be relevant anymore, at least thats my theory.

I thoguht you worked in a cafe btw?

College isnt gonna make you irrelevant, it just moves you from a pool of X number of people competing for blue-collar jobs to a pool of X number of people competing for white collar jobs.

There's really no advantage to college except you get paid more, which I guess is the point (you do get paid a lot more). But having a degree doesn't move you into some elite class of people anymore... I think American universities hand out something like 250,000 bachelor degrees per year. So that should tell you how common they are right there.

You really need to go to grad school or something to move up into that elite class.

[station82o]

a class i'm not interested in joining, if my life is measureed by academic status or social status than someone just gun me down right now.

[Diff-chan]

eh, you make more money and you can still find something you enjoy doing. It takes work to not become a worker drone at some big company in the white-collar world, but it also takes work to not become a lazy working stiff in the blue-collar world. It's all horse shit, might as well squeeze the most out of it.