Career advice for the college grad
Get Rich Slowly is a personal finance blog that I track regularly. One recent post was about how important it is to have actual job experience after graduating.
The premise of the article is that a typical college grad won’t have any experience and will be forced to take an entry-level position as a receptionist or mail clerk. Gradually, the grad will be able to work him/herself up to a more interesting position with better pay. The author gets it wrong, though, when she says that working a boring post-graduation job is inevitable.
It’s true that a grad coming from a traditional college setting typically has little choice in the matter. But by earning a degree through distance education you can get the “peon job” period out of the way while you’re studying and be ready to enter a better paying, more interesting job upon graduation (if not sooner).
Why prolong the process of securing a decent job if you don’t have to? Distance education leaves your schedule flexible enough to accommodate experimentation in a variety of job fields without suffering through the post-graduation doldrums of a boring entry-level position.
Gentlemen:
I am the mother who is in the enviable position of having a daughter who is homeschooling in her teens, and a son who is currently seeking a position for his master’s in physics. I’ve just discovered your website and have been pleased with the amount and diversity of information available. It has answered so many questions I’ve had, and helped me to be better prepared to approach the subject of distance high education with my duaghter. I, too, have seen the statistics from our campuses and am significantly concerned enough to believe that the proof of the statistics should lead Christians to rethink their blind following of the world’s mantra, “Go to college, Go to college!” . Please continue to post to your web/blog site. There are those out here who desire it! Thank you.
Cindy Westmark
November 25, 2007 at 9:32 am