CFA + What?

Greenman72 wrote:
I agree and disagree with this.
I agree with the “don’t get a grad degree for the sake of having one”. I know a lot of MBA’s from Local State University that have trouble getting jobs as a shift leader at Taco Bell.
However, any degree is better than no degree. Whether it’s a net benefit (considering time lost, tuition paid, etc.) is still up in the air.
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I think that’s what i mean all along, there are always benefits with education but you have to ask yourself if it’s worth it.
Like if you finished law school and passed your bar, is it benefitial to go back to nightschool and take a course for paralegal? one can argue education never hurts, but then again, as a tool for your job, probably not that helpful.
 
It also depends on the country’s culture. Here in Australia, tradesmen can make heaps of money and it’s a perfectly acceptable career path. In southeast asia, God forbid if you want to become one, your family might disown you.
 
First of all, ALL real schools are “recognized” by the government. If a school is not recognized by the government, then it’s not a real school.
Second of all, if you acknowledge that your master’s program is not good for networking, then why did you decide to go there in the first place? If you are just using it as a stepping stone to get into a PhD program at a better school, that’s fine.
But if you do not want a PhD, what are you doing there? This is not a case of “something is better than nothing”. It is not like choosing to do the CFA, “because it is better than nothing”. Everybody writes the same CFA exams and gets the same CFA charter. Not all master’s programs are the same, or give you the same job opportunities.
 
itera wrote:
I agree with the “don’t get a grad degree for the sake of having one”. I know a lot of MBA’s from Local State University that have trouble getting jobs as a shift leader at Taco Bell.
However, any degree is better than no degree. Whether it’s a net benefit (considering time lost, tuition paid, etc.) is still up in the air.
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Any degree is better than no degree? Try telling that to all the crappy law school graduates working at Taco Bell so they can pay off the 6 figure sums they owe for their law school “education”.
 
Greenman72 wrote:
kurtosis wrote:
However, any degree is better than no degree. Whether it’s a net benefit (considering time lost, tuition paid, etc.) is still up in the air.
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Any degree is better than no degree? Try telling that to all the crappy law school graduates working at Taco Bell so they can pay off the 6 figure sums they owe for their law school “education”.
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Let me refer you to the part where I said, “WHETHER IT IS A NET BENEFIT AFTER TUITION AND TIME LOST IS STILL A QUESTION”
Are you seriously telling me that you’d rather have no degree than a hacksaw JD from a hacksaw school?
 
Yes. A hacksaw degree from a hacksaw school tells people that you’re an idiot and not really good at evaluating your choices.
The chance of you passing the bar and/or getting hired as an associate (or even as a paralegal) when your law degree is from Crazy Eddie’s Lawyerin’ Emporium are ZERO. The point is that if you want to get hired as a lawyer, getting a degree from a shit school is going to put you in the exact same position as if you never went in the first place.
The people at Taco Bell don’t give a shit if you have a law degree or not, darlin’. All they care about is that you have no criminal record, can pass a basic food safety test and can show up to work on time. They’ll probably laugh at you if you put it in your application.
 
Okay. You’re right. I’m wrong.
All the lawyers who didn’t go to Yale–hack that sack.
Oh–I forgot. If you didn’t go to Yale, you’re not a lawyer, because you obviously couldn’t pass the bar. You’re not even qualified to be a paralegal.
Three years of law school will probably qualify you to get your Claritas certificate.
 
This isn’t about getting into Yale. This is about the fact that there is a huge oversupply of law school graduates and MBA graduates - some of whom are even suing their law school for misrepresenting their employment prospects. See for instance
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-23/glut-leads-lawyers-to-surprise-sue-law-schools
The point is that if you can’t get into a top 20 law program or top 20 MBA program, you’re wasting your money and more importantly your time. At some point you have to realize that you don’t get to be the baseball player or the ballerina or whatever it is you had your heart set on.
If the job you’re likely to get isn’t even going to care that you went to law school, what is the point of going?
 
kurtosis wrote:
The point is that if you can’t get into a top 20 law program or top 20 MBA program, you’re wasting your money and more importantly your time.
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Yep, that’s a good point.
Higgs went to #17, so he’s still safe.
I went to Washington University in Stl Lous, which is #21. I guess I have to kill myself now.
My life is meaningless now. I am a failure and a waste of space.
Goodbye cruel world…..
 
In my opinion, if you get an undergraduate degree from a top 5 business school and then go to a no name school for your MBA, the MBA actually devalues the undergraduate degree. So, I think the incremental benefit is based on the preceding undergraduate degree.
 
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