Oh crap Orlando?!?!
Jeez, if I had known that I would have told you to stay put. I mean jeez, Orlando.
God thats depressing.
I feel bad for you, but I feel worse for how you are going to grow to resent all of us, your degree and will lie in bed questioning every decision you have made until this piont and why God hates you.
Orlando...wow.
I am totally kidding. Congrats!
Orlando.....that means that MSCC and CFR SCCA are probably your local clubs to check out.
MSCC is hosting the state autocross championships in Sebring this year. (Funny.....that's where we had it last time we hosted, too.)
Trying to calculate ROI on a degree can be painful. When I started my MBA, pre-recession, it was the management shortcut. You cut your teeth in engineering for a few years, prove your smarts, get the MBA, run a team by 35, director at 40, VP at 45, and then bounce around various mahagohney rows collecting increasing 6-figure salaries along the way until you retire early. All in a neat little package.
By the time I completed the degree in 2010, it was at least as much a liability as it was an asset. I started leaving it off of resumes since all it seemed to net me was "overqualified".
At this point, I've decided that if I try to consider the degree any sort of investment, I just get pissed. So it's a $40k sunk cost that may or may not hold future benefit.
Unless my degree puts "MD" or similar at the end of my name, I wouldn't worry about it at all.
Criminal Justice Degree... Following possible job in entertainment.
scratches head
Never mind. Their essentially the same thing.
DILYSI Dave wrote: Trying to calculate ROI on a degree can be painful. When I started my MBA, pre-recession, it was the management shortcut. You cut your teeth in engineering for a few years, prove your smarts, get the MBA, run a team by 35, director at 40, VP at 45, and then bounce around various mahagohney rows collecting increasing 6-figure salaries along the way until you retire early. All in a neat little package. By the time I completed the degree in 2010, it was at least as much a liability as it was an asset. I started leaving it off of resumes since all it seemed to net me was "overqualified". At this point, I've decided that if I try to consider the degree any sort of investment, I just get pissed. So it's a $40k sunk cost that may or may not hold future benefit.
I won't lie, I have done a few comparisons of a master'a degree tuition vs. an index fund of the same amount.
Mitchell wrote: I won't lie, I have done a few comparisons of a master'a degree tuition vs. an index fund of the same amount.
^^ why I haven't gone to get a higher degree....that's a lot of money that could be earning me money.
The question I haven't really seen asked yet - "does it further your career"?
If the position gets you in a better place career-wise, that makes a bigger difference than picking one that needs an advanced degree (IMHO).
I realized that I never answered your question. Yes, it helps my career, because it shows my commodity of interest at one rung up the supply chain and at a much larger scale.
DILYSI Dave wrote: Trying to calculate ROI on a degree can be painful...
I know.
That's why all of you paid for mine!
Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!
Wait, was that a punk move? Sorry. I just thought you should see your tax dollars in action.
I think I just made it worse...
Seriously, education is kind of like the cars we all love so much. The actual value may not prove in the salary you bring in, but instead it reflects in the opportunities and more importantly, the happiness they bring.
I maintain I have the most worthless BA of anyone here (philosophy). But they study of that made me happy and I would argue, that no education is wasted.
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