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Would you stay in grad school?

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Shanteli

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Ok so I'll just explain my situation in bullet form:

1) Currently in a masters program for MIS
2) Currently work for the University thus I get a kick@ss tuition wavier...I only pay $75 per semester
3) The 2 year program will turn into 3 years becasue I need to work 20hr and grad classes are way more time consuming.
4) I hate MIS...even as an undergrad I hated it. It is all BS business sh!t and they try to make you think that you're worth 70K even though when you get out you know nothing...kinda like an MBA.
5) IT is the only thing I know or am good at so even though I do hate this program it would help in the future if I finished it
6) I have already tried to jump off the IT ship and change careers but I really don't have the brain for hardcore science or healthcare....and I really don't feel like doing anymore school.
7) I am the last of my friends who is still in school...everyone else is making money out in the real world...and that fact really makes me lose any enthusiasm for being here.
8) I'm probably just complaining because it is still a very cheap investment for a better payoff in the future...but man... I so do not have the energy for it any more.

Thx for reading!
 
Well in all honesty it is no longer fun...I feel like an accountant when I go to work. Sure I get to mess with my servers, program some backend web scripts, create more and more databases, etc but it is not very exciting....not that it ever could be considered "exciting" but I liked it before...now it is just *bleh*.

Oh yeah and a little bit of that fealing has to do with the very long spirts of unemployment after graduating in 2002. A lot of self-hatred came out of that whole experience. I really have no faith in my occupation anymore...I see it as a joke that is ready to explode when you get laid off.
 
Eh, IT is like most other job markets...there'll always be a need for qualified people in the field.

If you weren't doing IT, what would you want to do (not what're you good at, but what excites you)?
 
I think you need to back up and decide what you'd like to do with your life... it sounds like you're in IT not because you have any special love for it anymore, but because you dont think you have any other options at this point.

If you step back and say "I can't think of a damn thing I'd actually get excited about doing now", you're probably just burnt out from your whole situation. Take a month off and go far away.
 
stick with school. ask your friends how much they like their jobs. maybe it depends on age, but i'm a 23 year old who works who's dying to go back to scool. my friends feel the same way, they'd all rather be in school than in the "real world."
 
Originally posted by: Whisper
Eh, IT is like most other job markets...there'll always be a need for qualified people in the field.

If you weren't doing IT, what would you want to do (not what're you good at, but what excites you)?
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Movie trailers excites me...like editing them to music. But any such occupation is within the entertainment industry which is very hard to get into....to a unrealistic level.

Besides that I like the military but I already tried to go into OCS there....but was denied cuz of health reasons.

And yes I have talked to my friends who have jobs and they are not necessarily happy but not unhappy either. It is kinda like most people....go to work...get a paycheck...buy things....<loop>.

I have yet to meet someone who truely LOVES their job.
 
Doing that which you do not enjoy simply isn't worth it. I would give serious consideration to this, because the farther you go the harder it will be to turn back. There is nothing worse than waking up each morning and not enjoying what you do. $70k is a decent salary, but not near enough to suspend any intrinsic motivation you might have.
 
Everyone is pissed with what they got. Be happy with what you have. Stay in school and graduate... then you can piss your life away 9-5 for the rest of eternity.
 
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