Re:Education Pays: 2008 Unemployment, Pay, and Education Level
by gaius on Sunday June 07, 2009 @01:06PM
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I totally agree, but those are the "nuclear option" if you will. $100,000 in debt, and spending as much again on an MBA is not to be undertaken lightly.
I appreciate my great good fortune to be graduating into the early years of the dotcom boom... But when the NASDAQ imploded I had 3 solid years experience framed on my CV in terms of "I have done X using technologies A, B and C accomplishing result Y". That's what matters a few years out of college and without it it would be very difficult to "catch up" or even to get a foot in the door.
I appreciate my great good fortune to be graduating into the early years of the dotcom boom... But when the NASDAQ imploded I had 3 solid years experience framed on my CV in terms of "I have done X using technologies A, B and C accomplishing result Y". That's what matters a few years out of college and without it it would be very difficult to "catch up" or even to get a foot in the door.