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Should I go directly to grad school?
If you go to grad school directly, you risk being an over-educated unemployed graduate.
There are way too many of those these days.
I know that. And I’d have more debt on graduation.
Try working before you go to grad school.
If I work first, I may not have the time to go to grad school.
Plenty of people take graduate classes part time while working. It actually helps them
pay for it.
That is incredibly hard.
Here’s another reason. If you get a job with a company with educational assistance,
the company will help pay for grad school.
If you have work experience, many graduate schools consider you a stronger candidate.
If you go straight to graduate school, you may pick something that interests you instead
of a program with value in the market.
I’d be good at it. That means I’d get a good grades.
It’s unwise to get a master’s degree in business without doing a return on investment
calculation on it first. Or get a master’s degree in literature and find you make just
as much as someone with a bachelor’s degree.
The longer you wait to start the degree, the harder it is to find the time to do so. I
don’t want to be doing homework alongside my kids.
And automatically choosing to stay in school to hope the job market gets better means you
waste time and money if the degree doesn’t literally pay off.
If the degree does pay off, then this is the time to earn it. What if I find out later
it is worth it?
You could always go back to grad school after getting laid off at forty, if you don’t
want to take night classes at 24.
You're right. I can always have a fall back plan of starving student at any age.