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Originally Posted by offjack
Speaking of college, I want to go back and start my associate's, eventually getting a bachelor's. From your experience, would you say a Marketing degree is a good idea?
It'd be mostly for networking, marketing training itself is well, free, especially here. My self-indulgent dream degree is an English one but it's an English degree and STEM/IT doesn't interest me. I could fall back on my trade certs but I want to get an ROI on school, y'know?
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I'm probably not the person to ask as the degrees I got are the kind that would make OHL throw himself off a bridge
I've never used any of them for any offline work directly but indirectly huge benefits. how to navigate systems/bureaucracy, gaining connections, learning how to work with people from all walks of life, deeper understanding of diff ways of interpreting societies. the biz I run offline is cuz I started teaching the kids down at the beach during covid when the schools were closed
their fathers brought them to the beach as they worked fishing and the kids were bored. I couldn't tutor if I wasn't educated myself, and gained knowledge just experiencing professors teach and learning from their styles of what worked and what did not. their fathers got to know me through being down there with their kids
when the owner of the biz died, I had just sold an adult site so I bought it using those proceeds with their full support
when I need a programmer I hire one
I guess my point is, whatever degree you get, in today's world you gotta be creative about using the skills you learn
you say you don't wanna do STEM but those are each very broad fields. what would you like to do and how can you realistically get the ROI from it? I would suggest looking into blended STEM programs more deeply. some actually involve elements of the humanities depending on what school you choose
and make enough money in adult so that you don't have to graduate with student loan debt