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I'm kinda kicking around going back to school.
Maybe an associates in Networking Technology.
Networking just freaks me out but with WCF and everything going web based it's starting to play more and more into what I do for a living. I'm uncomfortable with the terminology and so forth so maybe sitting through some classes would help.
Meh.
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If that's all you want it for is personal knowledge , why go for a paid degree? try out something like MIT's freebies. I have looked through some of them and they are pretty good.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder
Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow.
You can't scare me, I have children.
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Having money in the game discourages slacking off midway through.
It also gets you another bullet point on your resume for your next job hunt.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Having money in the game discourages slacking off midway through
This.
I kinda need the push a class gives me or I'll sit home and do nothing instead.
Plus, I currently have NO IT degree so even a 2yr. would be better than what I've got now.
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valid points. I was posting under the assumption that you had an IT degree already and was adding knowledge mainly for personal advancement. I guess that serves to remind me what "assume" means.. lol
Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder
Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow.
You can't scare me, I have children.
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MehGerbil wrote: Plus, I currently have NO IT degree so even a 2yr. would be better than what I've got now.
Doubly so. Even if you had a the CS BS a lot of people (myself included) probably assumed you did the credential enhancement is arguably worth it for the resume enhancement. Adding an AS would be more work than just getting a cert (even assuming you were able to get transfer credit for any gened courses the school required); but people are more likely to see a cert as bogus because it's so easy to cheat your way to one without learning anything. (Although equally arguably if you had the BS, upgrading to an MS with an emphasis on X would be better than adding an AS in X; but definitely would be more work.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Thanks for these suggestions.
I may do those along with the classes.
This is still all in the planning phase.
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I just finished a 2 year Masters Degree (Computer Information Systems) this May. I actually did it for fun, not worried about getting a new job. In the process, it helped refresh my thinking about IT and I learned a few thigns in the process. If you're going to go back, go for yourself, and not for any other reason. If you're having fun, you can accomplish almost anything cause you'll keep trying. It took about 15 hours of work a week for two years, but that isn't that bad in the scheme of things!
In the end, the masters degree gave me the shoe in to get the next job.
Hogan
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How much of your eveings/weekends time did your MS program take? I've occasionally thought about it; but losing so much of my free time for 2 years has always been one of the reasons I've hesitated.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Some of my classes only required 2 or 3 hours a week. My worst week was about 60 hours (finishing a big paper). Other than that, probably 3 20 hour weeks a semester, but most around 10 hours.
Wow, that sounded disjointed... A typicall week had me on the computer around 9:00 pm (after the kids went to bed and finally went to sleep) and worked until 10pm, then called it a night. Then I would put in some work on Sat or Sunday for a couple hours straight and be done for the week.
I should probably mention that I did a program that was mixed online and in person. The first week of each semester required a visit to campus to be lectured by professors (4 times), then the rest of the semester was online.
I found that the online portion required much more studying than I would have done for an in person class as you were responsible for all of the information gathering and then addressing the problems presented by the professor. I highly recommend it.
If you're still curious, check out their website[^]
Hogan
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