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But will that degree help him find a job? And will he get any tangible payoff from the thousands of hours of class & studying (even if it was "free")? (I get th
by Johnny555 10y ago
But will that degree help him find a job? And will he get any tangible payoff from the thousands of hours of class & studying (even if it was "free")? (I get that the degree has intangible "I put myself through college!" benefits, but if he was trying to better his situation, was the degree the right choice?)
What's the job market like for newly minted mechanical engineers? Does he now face years of apprenticeship to earn his PE so he can really take advantage of the degree?
He ran a plastering business for 24 years, would he have been better off taking some business courses to learn how to grow his company and then putting those hours into his business as the economy improved?
- pjmorris 10y agoI suppose if he hadn't gone for the degree someone could pose questions like yours about his unwillingness to retrain. And, who knows, maybe he's got a plan to reshape the engineering behind the plastering business. It's probably more profitable and more painful to ponder your own counterfactuals than someone else's.