Has anyone ever gone back to school after bring done for a long time?

[bigweatherby]

I finished up with college a while ago. Where I work offers a program though that will pay for school, as long as you get an A or B. If you go back and get an a degree through them, you get a 20% raise. Crazy good right!

I went and saw a councelor and she said I had 8 classes to get another degree. Then I went and saw the lady in charge of prior learning credits and she gave me credit for everything but 2 classes. SOOOOoooooo, I am back in school. I should be done halfway through summer and as soon as I bring in the degree, I get my raise.

It is really strange to be walking the halls of school as a student again.

[dvmcmr]

Good for you.

I've thought about it many times, but making money always came first, so it's never happened.

Wanted to be a forester when I was young and should have persued it.

[Berserker]

I thought about it, employers will pay for it, but I just don't have the ambition. Where I am at, it wouldn't help me, unless I wanted to climb.

[1shot1k]

I thought about it, employers will pay for it, but I just don't have the ambition. Where I am at, it wouldn't help me, unless I wanted to climb.


:confused: :D I could ponder a long time.....and not write a "better" endorsement of Employer aided
Education.


:)

[Luvs2Play]

I'm too old to be kicked out of school again, and then all the kids would laugh at me!

Go BW, there is no reason you shouldn't take this on, after all, a 20% raise will buy you that new gun you don't yet have.

[1shot1k]

I'm too old to be kicked out of school again, and then all the kids would laugh at me!

Go BW, there is no reason you shouldn't take this on, after all, a 20% raise will buy you that new gun you don't yet have.


Wait...Luv's...do you mean it ...?

You've found a gun BW "doesn't" have....?


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[Luvs2Play]

It's possible, there has to be something, somewhere, somehow, that he has missed.

[dvmcmr]

It's possible, there has to be something, somewhere, somehow, that he has missed.


In the siberian wilderness................LOL.

[bigweatherby]

Oh, I have a list.... LOL

[Berserker]

:confused: :D I could ponder a long time.....and not write a "better" endorsement of Employer aided
Education.


:)
I am an electrical engineer. A masters in EE, wouldn't help me much. A MBA might, if I want to go into supervision. So ya I could get them to pay for alot of it, but I don't want to be a supervisor. People suck.

[bigweatherby]

+1 ^^

[1shot1k]

Well..I sure didn't want to upset anyone. And I dont think all people are "losers"...
but that is just my opinion.

When I saw or see a reference to "motivation level"....it just registers with me. The main
post was about going to more school...

I do see where some just go with the status quo, and that is just fine...I was simply
commenting to the aspect that, continuing education for all the right reasons....provided
or underwritten by an employer, can be life altering and good for so many.

The extra schooling..."especially" the uncountable factory on site schools or
certs etc....including individuals met...is priceless as for me...anyway..

I also am an EE Engineer, Digital, with Microwave endorsements....and of course the Nicet Level IV,
for the fire planning etc...

As I say...I can see the thinking and decisions of any and respect them...please respect or
understand how I can see such a phrase, and as former management in small environments...it
indeed stood out to me......;)

regards,

1shot1k

[Berserker]

I don't think people are losers, I think they suck.

[armededucator]

Haven't you been reading bumper stickers? Only Mean People Suck.

I read about 80-year-olds who go back to school to graduate college with law degrees and wonder why the H*LL don't they go south like they're supposed to and stop making me feel like a lazy slug. Now I know, it's all about the $$.

[bigweatherby]

Haven't you been reading bumper stickers? Only Mean People Suck.

I read about 80-year-olds who go back to school to graduate college with law degrees and wonder why the H*LL don't they go south like they're supposed to and stop making me feel like a lazy slug. Now I know, it's all about the $$.


Thats right.

[olderthandirt]

Haven't you been reading bumper stickers? Only Mean People Suck.

I read about 80-year-olds who go back to school to graduate college with law degrees and wonder why the H*LL don't they go south like they're supposed to and stop making me feel like a lazy slug. Now I know, it's all about the $$.

It ain't just about the $$$$$,,, It's the fact that there almost dead and they don't want to die a loser, so they want some letters after there name. That 80 year old is now known as Mr. xxxx bs. LMAO

[Judge Roy Bean]

I went back and got my BA in Marketing with the company I used to work for....wish I'd been dedicated (less partying) enough to do so when I was much younger.

[Berserker]

It ain't just about the $$$$$,,, It's the fact that there almost dead and they don't want to die a loser, so they want some letters after there name. That 80 year old is now known as Mr. xxxx bs. LMAO

Waste of money. Alot of degrees are a waste of money, no mater the age.

We have told kids they have to go to college. So now there is a lack of skilled labor. These kids don't want to do any physical or dirty work.

[bigweatherby]

We still need people to dig ditches, I just don't want to do it and I don't want Lil W doing it either......unless he wants to.

[Berserker]

I am not even taking general labor. There is shortages in the trades, welders, ect. We told all the kids they have to go to college, so they go, spend lots of money, for degrees, that are not in demand or have little value.

[Luvs2Play]

We still need people to dig ditches, I just don't want to do it and I don't want Lil W doing it either......unless he wants to.

And I just sold a business, built it myself, never spent a day in college either. I am the owner/ditch digger, and I did okay for myself. If I had to do it again, I would have done things the same way, after all I see coming out of college around here, I don't think very many of them could ever run a business, let alone work it.

Proud to have worked in the ditches myself, and there will always be a need for my kind, there just won't be any because they are entitled to the office jobs because they have an education to show they are too good to do manual labor.

[Berserker]

I ran a shovel a bit when I was younger trenching wire and pipe. I was a punk kid, and working I believe helped straighten me out, atleast better then I was.

[bigweatherby]

I would just like to see him get a white collar job and not have to work as hard as I (we) do. If however he finds that he likes the physical type labor, then I will support him. Its his choice. I agree that putting in a real days work can build character. If proof is needed, just look at the characters on this thread!

[Berserker]

White collar? I'd rather have a daughter that is whore, then a son that is a golfer.

I would have made more as union electrician, then electrical engineer, and not had to spend the money on college, or lose those earning years. Actually what I think may be good, is 2 year degrees. There is to much crap in a 4 year. Less then 5% is any value.

[Luvs2Play]

Everyone now is expecting a white collar job, they think a nightly party and a free government education gives them the right to not have to work for a living. If they don't get what they think they deserve, they will immediately occupy Wall Street. Even if they do get the cushy high paying job, there will be no one left for them to direct, it will be much like what the Kenyan is going to feel if he is reelected.

[bigweatherby]

Yeah you guys are right. I guess I just don't want him to have to work two jobs like I did. Leave in the morning at 7 and get home at 11:45 at night every day.

I suppose I don't care what he does as long as he is a good worker, ethical, and is happy with what he does. Right now he is going between wanting to be a SWAT team member or an alien fighting cowboy. I guess he could be both...

[Berserker]

What I am getting at, is there are lot of really good paying non college jobs. Not saying I would do it different, but there are other options.

[Luvs2Play]

I think it would be great for him to have a manual labor job, and would be even better to move up to a white collar job. That way he will know what the working stiffs have to put up with and hopefully won't lose touch with the grunts that keep him in the position he is in. Nothing wrong with upper management until they forget what it is like to be the low man on the totem pole.

[bigweatherby]

+1


Nothing worse than a manager that has no idea what the people under him have to go through.

Same could be said about a president.

[Berserker]

I think it would be great for him to have a manual labor job, and would be even better to move up to a white collar job. That way he will know what the working stiffs have to put up with and hopefully won't lose touch with the grunts that keep him in the position he is in. Nothing wrong with upper management until they forget what it is like to be the low man on the totem pole.

I am trying to figure if you belong to a union.