I'd really like to pursue a PhD in Comp Sci (My BS is in CS). But with a family there's just no way. If I kept my full-time job, I might have the money to do it, but I wouldn't have the time. And vice-versa if I quit my job and became a full-time student.
I did go and get an online Masters of sorts (an MBA from WGU), which was definitely do-able while working full-time (and also useless), but it was nowhere near as rigorous and time-consuming as an engineering graduate degree would be :)
You work with PhDs, so can pursue your graduate interests directly from them while being involved in the research, and get paid at the same time albeit not industry standards, prepare for lower salary. Open AI hires developers too and plenty of researchers are there.
It is frustrating that education requires so much wealth. As a young adult I was completely focused on getting a paid position out of my degree and took internships based on pay alone. Despite a professor pushing me to stay onto further education and easily getting a 1st, I couldn’t justify the costs of continuing.
Having seen what poverty can do to someone I have always put securing my future financially over my education, in the hope that one day I can return to university and resume.
And I am one of the lucky ones who could afford / was explained benefits of an education from a young age.
Would you feel your masters would’ve had more value from another institution? Curious because I’m looking to get an MBA (my employer will cover the cost).
Do not get a full time on campus MBA from any programme that is not spoken of as top 10. There are more than ten of those for what that’s worth. If you are already doing a job that people get an MBA to get and your company will pay for you to get an executive MBA that is sensible if a lot of work.
Most of the value of an MBA is in the network, not the knowledge so distance learning and correspondence degrees are worth drastically less. You can get an MBA from the UK’s Open University or Queen Mary’s, University of London for a little over twenty thousand pounds or thirteen thousand tespectively.
Yes, I would agree with this. Though, since I work in govt contracting, having that MBA can sometimes "check a box" when a position has a hard requirement for a certain degree (or degree level). But, yea, if I had it to do over again, I would pick a different Master's degree :)
I did go and get an online Masters of sorts (an MBA from WGU), which was definitely do-able while working full-time (and also useless), but it was nowhere near as rigorous and time-consuming as an engineering graduate degree would be :)