
So recently I’ve been thinking about going back to school. I’m beginning to realize that my Bachelor’s in Business Admin really isn’t worth much in today’s market. It seems to me that some employers are starting to treat a Bachelor’s degree like a High School diploma. So I guess a Associates Degree is being treated as a G.E.D from a Jr. College. Right now I feel caught between a rock and a hard place because although I think I want to go back to school, I don’t know if I’m really ready for all of that right now. If my Bachelor’s is being treated less than a Bachelor’s maybe that is the reason I’m not getting where I know I need to be.
I don’t think I’m giving myself enough credit. I also have a year of grad school under my belt. I guess I really don’t talk about that because I never got a chance to complete my degree. All because of Sallie Mae…you know what never mind. The moral of the story is…I need a better job. Actually scratch that, I need a career and holding on to this degree and not advancing isn’t helping me advance professionally. It may not be the fact that I just have a Bachelors degree. Maybe there are just too many college graduates out here. According to Time Magazine:
“In 1973, a bachelor’s degree was more of a rarity, since just 47% of high school graduates went on to college. By October 2008, that number had risen to nearly 70%. For many Americans today, a trip through college is considered as much of a birthright as a driver’s license.”
It’s so competitive out here because everyone has a degree. Plus, with the economy the way it is there are more unemployed people holding degrees than without. Those who can’t find work are going to school to at least get that piece of paper they need to get any decent job they can get. So does a degree of any kind hold weight within our struggling economy?
When I first came out of college and I applied for jobs, employers turned me down because I didn’t have enough experience. Although I had the degree I didn’t have the necessary work experience to land the job. So can someone who just got out of college suppose to get a job in their field? The whole point of getting a degree is to work in your career field. No one told me that the experience was what employers were really looking for in an applicant. I couldn’t find a job, took what was available and I was left with a college degree working with high school teenagers as a cashier at an office supply store. I was cursing my professors, my career counselor, Sallie Mae and even my mom for selling me a pipe dream.
Now, I am in a better position than I was back then but I still have some advancing to do. I probably will go back to school and finish my MBA after all. I hate starting something and not completing it. Maybe I can get where I need to be with this new piece of paper with my name in calligraphy adorned in the center. Even if an MBA doesn’t get me where I want, I know there is one thing that no one can take away from me is my education. It never hurts to learn. Isn’t learning new things what life’s about anyway?