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Originally posted by CJFusco
Rick - the graduate degrees are not completely simply to help me secure a job, they are for my benefit and my satisfaction. I do want to eventually teach at the University level, hance my desire to begin a PhD in the next couple years (student-teaching is usually a part of PhD programs - you teach the courses that the tenured professors don't want to touch).
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In that case, grad school is a good move for you. Around here in DC, I don't think an advanced degree has ever earned anyone a dime more in pay, but it does add to student loan debt. Sometimes it's a freebie, since companies will pay for it. But I just never saw the point of someone working in politics, going back to school, racking up $30k in new debt, making almost nothing in those two yrs. and then coming back to the workforce to make about what they made before. One of my co-workers is doing that very soon, heading to Columbia School of Journalism. But our company is kicking in $10k for the effort and keeping her employed part time. Still, she won't get a dime's raise in base salary when she comes back and there will be a ramp up period for the commissions to start rolling in again. Luckily, she's doing it for personal satisfaction and not career advancement or pay increase.