Best Careers

My husband and I did everything by the book.  We both worked hard in the traditional sense, he worked in law and I raised the kids.  After 30+ years with the same company he retired with a nice retirement package.  I never bothered getting so much as an associate degree because my main job was to raise the kids.  Although, now after the aggressive investments we made to retire early have failed we find ourselves in an unplanned situation.  I will either have to go to work to help save for a while, or our retirement will be put off by approximately 15 years by our estimation. 

I have decided to complete a degree and acquire an accredited associates degree in paralegal studies.  Even though I am not excited about the reasons I am returning to school I am still excited to learn.  I feel like I am finally completing something that I will have total ownership of, my education.  I have even talked about continuing on with a ba degree after completion of the program.

In addition, I think it will be fun to work in the same office as my husband for a while. More than likely, we will not get to work on the same cases, but I look forward to seeing him more often then I did when he was in the middle of his career.

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When I started the search for a college that was going to suit me, I had no idea what I wanted in a school. I wasn’t even sure whether I wanted to get a two-year or four-year degree. Ultimately, I ended up getting both. Along the way, I learned a lot about how to make choices regarding education.

Here are some of the tips that I picked up for choosing an associate degree program when you aren’t quite sure what you want to do with your degree:

• Choose a degree that is going to offer you employment immediately upon graduation. For example, you might do a criminal justice associate degree online so you can work in the courts, law enforcement or social service sectors after you graduate.
• Choose a degree that will also segue easily into a bachelors degree program. For example, a public administration bachelor degree is easy to get after starting the same degree in an associate program.
• Choose something that you’re at least moderately excited about. Yes, it’s school. Yes, it’s for the purpose of getting a job. But you shouldn’t hate what you do so keep searching until you find something you’d really like to study.

The thing that I learned over and over again in different ways was that you have to make choices about your education that will suit you immediately but also make sense for you in the long run. If you try to keep this in mind, you should find yourself capable of choosing a good associate degree program and the best online colleges.

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