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Most reasonably competent & focused adults can probably keep their day job and finish a bachelor's degree.
Grad school would be a different story. I had to quit my job 9 months into grad school because I couldn't concentrate to the level I needed to. Having to do original research requires so much more focus than taking tests and writing papers.
Most reasonably competent & focused adults can probably keep their day job and finish a bachelor's degree.
Grad school would be a different story. I had to quit my job 9 months into grad school because I couldn't concentrate to the level I needed to. Having to do original research requires so much more focus than taking tests and writing papers.
Only if it is online, they go to a school that offers a wide array of classes and times for those classes, or they take forever and a day.
I quit my job to go, I found that the trend for many colleges is they have cut back so much, many required classes are offered only once per semester, and are sometimes the prerequisite class needed to take other required classes.
This offers basically no flexibility, and even having no job it was challenging to create a full time schedule for just classes I needed, and sometimes I had to take classes I did not need due to no needed classes available, and needing to keep full time enrollment.
I can just imagine the challenge a person employed would have.
I worked full time during my grad school though, but my employer sponsored it, and the grad school was very accommodating of people's work schedule as it was an MBA, and about everyone there was working full time.
Only if it is online, they go to a school that offers a wide array of classes and times for those classes, or they take forever and a day.
I quit my job to go, I found that the trend for many colleges is they have cut back so much, many required classes are offered only once per semester, and are sometimes the prerequisite class needed to take other required classes.
This offers basically no flexibility, and even having no job it was challenging to create a full time schedule for just classes I needed, and sometimes I had to take classes I did not need due to no needed classes available, and needing to keep full time enrollment.
I can just imagine the challenge a person employed would have.
I worked full time during my grad school though, but my employer sponsored it, and the grad school was very accommodating of people's work schedule as it was an MBA, and about everyone there was working full time.
True, I wasn't thinking the normal 4 year timeframe. With some required credit classes only offered at certain times, if a job won't allow it you'll never finish.
Yeah, it's a lot easier if you're cobbling a degree together over an extended period of time, versus knocking it out in a traditional full-time timeframe.
My daughter did her Masters at night while working full time. And graduated in 4 semesters. It was tough and took a lot of discipline, but it was possible. Her hubby quit his job last year to get his MBA. He had no choice. If you go to a top 10 MBA program, you go to school during the day and full time.
I'm pursuing a computer science degree and going to college full time now. I quit my day job because it wasn't giving me the skills/experience that I need to work in a tech job (IT, Programming, etc).
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