There is no denying that finding a job in today’s economy can be difficult. With more workers laid off from positions every day, the competition out there can be incredibly stiff. If you’re among those who have discovered your current field just won’t cut it any longer, pursuing a different track has never been easier. Even if you are lucky enough to hang on to your present job, you can still obtain an online IT degree to prepare for what the future may bring.
An online IT degree or other similar pursuit can open doors for you that you may have long thought closed. The reality is earning a degree online is more convenient, more affordable and even easier than you may have thought. While you will still have to earn the grade, an online business degree, computer sciences degree and so on can deliver these benefits to you as the economy spurts and sputters:
Flexible class hours – While the actual structure of online degree programs can vary, in most cases you will have the freedom to work around a present job or family needs. You can work on your future at your own convenience while making sure things are taken care of in the present.
Diversified options – An online IT degree might not appeal to you, but there are plenty of other options out there. Thanks to more colleges and universities taking their programs online, you can pursue an online MBA, nonprofit management credentials, a Masters in Education and more. The options are diversified and they are ones that involve fields that are more than holding their own.
Earning a sense of pride – For workers who have been laid off or suspect it’s coming, doing something positive to change the future can be a tremendous sense of pride. When you work to obtain an online business degree, for example, you will know you are doing what you can to get back on your feet.
An online IT degree and other similar programs can help anyone gain the independence and security they need in today’s economy. Adding to existing skills or completely retraining has never been easier.
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In the last post I talked about my inability to finish anything that I start. I have a long history of never seeing things through to the end and of losing the passion for a project somewhere near the middle. My life had fallen victim to this ongoing behavior, however, and finally I was ready to make a significant change.
Following the path of the career that appealed most to me I decided to pursue nonprofit management, as working with nonprofit organizations had always kept the fire burning in me, so to speak. I decided that pursuing my degree in that genre would enable me to stay engaged in the process and having never earned my degree (as I sort of fizzled out somewhere around my second year of college), this would be a way to redeem myself on that end as well.
I found an online nonprofit management degree program that, so far, is working quite well for me. The reason that this has really captured and held my attention – in addition to the work that I am doing to change my own behavior – is that it doesn’t confine me to a classroom or to a routine that will eventually become too difficult to maintain. By taking classes online I am be able to sort of make my own schedule which works well with my need to shake things up a bit here and there to keep myself from getting bored.
Also, because I’m online and not traveling to a college campus I am able to split my time between school and actually doing the work in a nonprofit organization. I feel accomplished, passionate about what I’m doing, and ready to see it through to the end. And, who knows, if this goes well I may very well consider the possibility of going after an online MBA.
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For as long as I can remember I have always been the one to lose focus and wander away from even the most important things in life. I start out really gung ho and I work really hard – almost too hard – and eventually I burn out, lose interest and walk away. This is probably some form of ADD which everyone seems to be diagnosed with these days but, for me, it is always just the way that I have been. As one could well imagine this type of behavior has cost me greatly in all areas of my life – from career to personal relationships. I have had some really tough stuff happen and finally I opened my eyes to the seriousness of my situation and began to make some changes.
More than anything in this world I want to stick to something that I believe in and follow it through to the end. For me, working with nonprofit organizations is where I feel most comfortable. I am able to bring my skills to the table and not feel as if I am suffocating in “corporate America;” rather, I am helping people who are not in a position to help themselves and that always feels good to me.
I am so passionate about this that I finally decided to put my money where my mouth was and get a degree in nonprofit management. I had not been able to finish my college degree before – surprise, surprise – but I thought this was the perfect opportunity to turn over a new leaf with something that I truly believed in and so I sought out a nonprofit management degree program that would work for me.
I found one – online. And with the resources available to me I am finally going to stick this one out for myself.
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In the last post I talked about my never-ending habit of ignoring that which should not be ignored. I had plenty of hindsight for sure but at the time that I would encounter something – a fork in the road when I needed to make a decision – I always went right when going left would have made my life so much easier.
Well past the age at which this behavior is deemed cute, I had come to a place where I decided to act against my natural reaction; if my instincts were not sharp then it made perfect sense to me to do the opposite of what I was propelled to do; which is what I did when I enrolled in an online business degree program. A friend of mine had recently enrolled. She was working part time at a job in which she was not happy and decided that while the economy was tough and jobs were hard to come by she would stick it out in her position while simultaneously taking steps to create another career for herself down the road. This made sense to me somewhere in my head but my instinct was to move on without giving it another thought. And so I did exactly opposite this and I enrolled in the program along with my friend.
As it turned out this online business degree paid me in dividends for my uncharacteristic behavior. I am excelling in the program, am well on my way to earning my college degree (something that I had previously failed to do), and I have begun exploring the many career possibilities available to me with such a degree in hand.
I can’t say for sure that if this was a traditional college program that I would have been so inclined to take a chance. But with an online business degree program I have been able to do what I need to do from the privacy of my home and completely make that time about me and me alone.
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For as long as I can remember I have never been one of those people who does anything on time or in any sort of linear way. Generally speaking I am someone who goes through life as if moving along a current and I will pass right by something that I don’t think to be important only to realize several years down the road that it could have changed my life – at which point I circle back around to do that something that I should have done from the start. In other words, I never do anything the easy way. It’s sort of my calling card at this point; something my friends and family marvel at and about which they gently tease me.
So you can well imagine that I just didn’t go right to college like “normal” people because at the time it didn’t look like anything that would have too much of an impact in my life. I wanted to travel and then work in some creative field and I couldn’t for the life of me imagine what a degree of any sort would do for me in that life. Of course it would have made all the difference as I now know - but better late than never I suppose.
Recently I was introduced to an online business degree program in which my close friend had enrolled. I was struck with the same thoughts that I have had all of my life – looks good, looks interesting, but there’s plenty of time for THAT. And that’s when I did something completely uncharacteristic of me – I waited, I pondered, I looked at the situation from all angles and I enrolled. For once in my life I didn’t want to underestimate the power that something seemingly unimportant could have in my life (after all, hadn’t I already demonstrated time and time again that my instincts in this area were lacking?) and wind up facing regret.
More in the next post about the power of the online business degree.
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I have recently returned to school and there is not one person in my life who has not expressed utter amazement that I would choose now, of all times, to pursue this objective. After all, with the economy being in its current state and people’s very livelihood at stake, why would anyone choose such a time to further their education and put money and time into anything that does not give them a steady paycheck in return? My answer to them all, is why not now? In fact, I thought that this was the perfect time for such pursuits. In my estimation, with everything as unstable as it currently is it would make the most sense for all of us to make ourselves as marketable as possible.
Plus, as I explained to them, I was not sacrificing my current job to go to school. I was holding onto my current job position for as long as it was available to me and was still, in fact, able to give it everything that I had in order to solidify my reputation. By choosing an online degree program I could do both – work and go to school.
I had chosen, in fact, an online business degree program that would allow me to easily handle both pursuits – educational and career. I continued to work during the day and “attend” school at night with only my Internet connection as my resource.
The online business degree program that I chose provides me with the educational resources to consider many more job positions in the future; I look upon this period of time as an opportunity to have many more doors open to me in the years to come and to give myself as much of a backup plan as possible in these very uncertain times.
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Getting an education is not a right in this country – it is very much a privilege; a privilege that hinges on finances, life circumstances, time, and every other manner of components that come together to decide whether something like this can be accomplished. And, of course, in this day and age it’s even more difficult to find the time and money to pursue a higher education; life is crazy busy and it just always seems like other things get in the way.
But in the world of the Internet anything is possible. And now it’s easier than ever to get a degree when it’s an online degree that we can pursue. An online degree program can allow those who desire to move forward with their education the time in which to do just that. There is no more rearranging of the schedule to go to campus, no more putting work on hold, no more juggling family responsibilities and important day to day activities to go to school. The sacrifice is only that of time spent on the Internet.
There are truly outstanding colleges and universities that offer online degree programs such as an online MBA program, online business degree, Masters in Education, and even an online IT degree program. Anything is possible online where modern day students can put aside the many reasons that would have stopped them going forward with their education and allow them to get back in the game and back on the road to achieving their dreams of that degree. And ultimately those degrees are what will allow students to pursue a career, realize a dream, or change their life.
Those interested in pursuing an online MBA program or other online degree program need only logon to find all the many highly reputable options available to them.
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I am an online degree junkie. Never heard of it? Surprising considering how many of us are learning online and are completely bolstered by the strides we can make in our education in the most convenient way possible. I am not someone for whom an online degree was even in the picture. I had been working in computer technology for quite some time but technology was changing so fast around me that I decided it was a good idea to get up to speed. And if I was going to go that far then I might as well get my degree. Trouble was that I didn’t want to stop working to do it. And so I looked at the online IT degree programs that were available and after weighing the many offerings by some really great schools, I made my choice of a program.
I started tenuously; I had no idea how effective an online degree program would be for me but I was willing to go the distance. Before long I was hooked. I absolutely loved the flexibility of the program and was so happy that I was able to earn my degree without compromising the rest of my life. I earned my online IT degree and I was off and running from there, even earning an online MBA.
A few years went by and I decided that I wanted to change careers and pursue a job in teaching – something that I had always loved. I was back online getting all of my classes under my belt and I even went so far as to get a Masters in Education. I know; it’s crazy. But there’s something so self-satisfying about putting my mind to something and getting it done in my time. And the online programs being offered today are comprehensive, convenient, and versatile for anyone’s lifestyle.
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When I was younger my mother would always say, “No matter what you do, you have to get your college degree. No one can ever take it away from you.” I heard this refrain so often and so passionately throughout my younger years that it is the irony of all ironies that I did not, in fact, finish college. I had all intentions, I never thought I wouldn’t, but when push came to shove a whole lot of other stuff got in the way – the list of which is too long to examine.
Suffice it to say that it is a regret I have long carried with me and I vowed this past year to make amends with myself (and my mother who still gives me “the look” whenever the subject of college comes up in conversation). The trouble was that I didn’t know how I would keep this promise to myself in light of everything else I had going on in my life.
For the business degree that I chose to pursue – after careful examination of the credits that I was bringing to the table, along with my specific career goals – I had options of which I could have only once dreamed. The online business degree program was like learning about my own private nirvana; I could go forward with my education and not miss a beat when it came to work or my family. And with a private office – as well as a computer - at home I had all that I needed to get started immediately.
I chose an online degree program offered through a college that had comprehensive offerings for its students. They didn’t just throw you into an online program and leave you on your own; there were many resources I could call upon to get all the information that I needed and I knew that support would always be available to me.
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My personal belief is that we all have many chances in life; it is never too late to go after something that you love. This is the attitude I adopted when I decided to go back to school at the ripe old age of fifty. I don’t consider myself to be old by any means, but I recognize that this is hardly the age of the typical college student and I absolutely considered how it would feel to sit amongst the twenty-somethings as I pursued my next career in nonprofit management.
Having spent my entire career in a completely different field of management (with no formal education behind me) I was ready to explore something different. I had hesitated for far too many years but the economy ultimately made the decision for me as downsizing at my company found me with a large severance package but out of a full time position.
I decided to look at this turn of events as something positive and to use the time to pursue my education while I also pursued a job in my intended field of nonprofit management. But my desire to avoid the traditional college classroom combined with my need to be at the ready should a job position come to life led me to explore the option of pursuing my degree online.
By going after an online degree in nonprofit management – even an online business degree if I chose – I could be sure that I was able to handle everything that was on my plate and have the ultimate flexibility to attend job interviews and pursue new positions.
I have made the most of my current situation and the online degree program that I ultimately chose has connected me to a whole network of students who are in similar places in their life.
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