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... this article shows the wisdom of committing to lifelong learning or pacing one's life so as always to advance one's education constantly and enjoyably at one's own natural stride.
I never stopped going to school and finally decided to complete the bachelor's I never needed. One of the glitches -- struck twice, actually, at the community college, then the university -- was that as a result of lifelong learning, I have something like 200 hours accumiulated. So, as I got near graduation, I got these nasty-grams from the registrars telling me that unless I graduated this term, I would suffer some dire consequence such as loss of financial aid. I managed to write back and get that solved easily enough -- in fact, they never heard about one school and other 30 credits. Just to say, the universe may not be malevolent, but the educational system is pernicious.
The upside is to underscore Luke's advice about degree inflation. I had a criminal justice textbook written by a woman with two Ph.D.s, one in English, the other in crim. Karen M. Hess writes a lot of textbooks. I had a prof with two masters, one in philosophy, the other in economics. He seemed not to lack for work.
Also, there is something of a "rocks and storm" (Skylla and Charybdis) problem in choosing those degrees. The best pay goes to specialists. However, the more narrow your niche, the less secure it is. With a bachelor's in criminology, it was easy to continue at the same school for a master's in sociology, but now, I don't know... Maybe an MBA... maybe something else... Sooner or later, I have to decide, of course, but, just to say, knowledge is so often incomplete.
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