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Not worth the hassle in my opinion. People who don't have it often think they need it but the reality is that you can learn on your own and fast as well.
I went straight to work and didn't get to college until 41/42. I'm working on my undergrad and plan to continue to my masters. I've found it incredibly rewarding for two main reasons. First, since I have a career already, I'm free of the pressure to go to school for career purposes and can focus on something I enjoy, which also provides immense value to what I'm doing every day (I chose philosophy, much more relevant…
Can you expand on how you found philosophy practical?
I'm a software developer, and had got into a rut of working for finance companies, because they have the money. I'm in my early 50's with four kids, three still at home, and I'm working my way slowly through a biomedical science degree, already it's given me the domain knowledge to able switch industries - I'm still a software developer but now in a biomed startup and much happier for it. One of my colleagues just co…
I'm in a very similar situation as you and want to jump into grad school, but it looks like that's not possible w/o undergraduate degree.
To me it smells like a vanity play, unless you’re doing it so you can get another 100k per year.
And yes, I can hear the people saying education is always a good thing to have.
But it reminds me of so many friends who have jobs less than 100k per year in the USA and go to take a masters degree. In almost every case, the higher degree did not change the outcomes they wanted in their life. They ended up with debt in their 40’s.
In almost every case it was a waste of time for the person. Imagine you’re 45 years old and you take 2 years to take this degree. The cost is just not worth it.
The world is moving to a place where degrees are no longer worth what they were in almost every profession (barring medicine, law, etc).
Don’t do it.
Not worth the hassle in my opinion. People who don't have it often think they need it but the reality is that you can learn on your own and fast as well.
School – in all of its forms – has different rhythms, patterns, and timing than most work Be sure you can work together to rebalance your lives.
Unless you’re teaching don’t waste your time. To me it smells like a vanity play, unless you’re doing it so you can get another 100k per year. And yes, I can hear the people saying education is always a good thing to have. But it reminds me of so many friends who have jobs less than 100k per year in the USA and go to take a masters degree. In almost every case, the higher degree did not change the outcomes they wante…
The one thing I do agree with there is that education is overpriced in America. As a European, I'd go as far as to say it's exploitative.
That OP is considering suggests the cost, where ever they are, is at least roughly within their means.
I wanted to get a PhD in CS at 40 but was convinced by a local professor of CS that it was a waste of everyone's time and there were no jobs to be had in the academic world anyway. Shortly thereafter Google started hiring them by the truckload. I wish I had ignored him. I did have a 4 decade career as a programmer, but who knows what might have happened if I had taken the time mid-career to do the doctorate.