Education – How valuable is a college degree? Part 4, The Conclusion

Part 1 is here; Part 2 is here; and Part 3 is here. My nephew and I began at the same time. He chose the University of Washington for his Bachelor degree. At the end, it cost him $40,000 and four years. I began in March 2006 and was done by November 2006, while working […]

Education – How valuable is a college degree? Part 3

Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here. It took me 14 months to realize the only way to become one was to be a secretary admin for seven years and work my way up through program assistant or go back to school and get my Bachelor degree. It did not matter what the […]

Education – How valuable is a college degree? Part 2

Part 1 is here. A year later, September of 2002, I came across a course entitled Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), which was an eight week course of three hours per week, teaching communities how to respond in an emergency, such as an earthquake or flood, etc. It was free. All you had to do […]

Education – How valuable is a college degree?

My friend, Bill Hamilton of Dealing with COPD, wrote a post regarding his school days, which hits a nerve with me. I am passionate now about getting a college degree if you want one, especially if you’re older and feel like you should have done so or if you just want one. I was 50 […]