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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I tend to think of a master's degree as a focusing force. Ideally, you get your undergraduate degree and go out and work and figure out what you like and what you don't like and who has the cool jobs that you really want. Then you get a master's degree that will help you move into that area by giving you a foot in the door.
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This is the approach I took. Despite being heavily recruited to come back, I left with my BS and wanted to go play in the real world a while. I was about as debt free as one could be, so off I went. While doing some traveling/working I noticed several other jobs I thought I would enjoy and thrive at and found that they all required a Master's Degree. While working with the people holding these positions they informed me a couple of these positions had numerous openings, or soon to be openings, all over the country. My interest was peaked until I quickly realized the compensation for these positions was straight up horrible. I'm talking high school and GED level salaries.
Going back to school in order to fill one of those positions, or something similar, made absolutely zero ****ing sense to me. I know two guys who went back and got their Master's and filled the two positions where I'm located. Their pay is crap, there is no moving up the ladder, you are what you are until you're tired of it, or die. **** that.
I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up. They can put it on my tombstone for all I care.
