Furthering My Education
Recently I’ve decided to get more serious about accomplishing things. You see, I only have a 2 year degree in graphic design. It is a degree, but I crave a 4 year degree. And sure I have years of job experience where I have learned everything from pre-press and printer trouble-shooting to css, xhtml, usability, and accessibility. But I still feel that I need another degree.
I have decided that I want to get a bachelor’s degree in marketing. Graphic design only gets you so far. From here I either need to dive into programming or marketing to keep going in this career. Heck, I would only consider about 5% of what I do actual design work.
I’ve also considered law school. But I need that 4 year degree first. Maybe I can get into intellectual property law.
But first I need to find how many credits I currently have. Then apply for grants followed by tuition reimbursement from my employer. I hope to accomplish this with night classes and/or online courses. This should be the most exciting thing in my life since buying my house.
I applaud your choice, I made the same choice a year ago. I decided to get my Bachelors in Information Technology and have been working through classes since last Summer.
In tough economic times I believe the best investment in ones future is an investment in themselves. I have always been a life long learner with more hobbies than I have time for. So getting my Bachelors was an easy decision.
I will some day pursue a Masters, but first things first and I will likely celebrate the first goal before worrying too much about the next one.