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Old 05-14-2015, 05:40 PM   #763
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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins View Post
There actually is an expiration date. Once you've been out of the workforce for twenty years, that degree is going to be viewed entirely differently than if you are straight out of school. Much of what they will have learned will be obsolete.

Imagine if you got a degree in Computer Science in 1994, left the workforce in 1995 after you got pregnant, had two kids, and just sent the second one off to college.

How relevant are those skills now?
Okay, that makes sense. But I would say that is a very specific case and not applicable to say a BA in Philosophy or History.
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