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What should I do? Finish school or take a good paying job?
I have a big decision to make whether to finish school or take a well paying job and try and finish school later. Remember we are in recession. I have just finished my 3rd semester towards a Business Degree at Fullerton College. I was going to transfer to CSUF. Here are my two options:
1. Continue school with my part time unstable job at $9/hr with a company that may not make it through this winter. I can get my Business Degree with Information Systems concentration approx June 2013. Then I will be trying to find a job in an economy that could be recovering or could be the same as it is now.
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2. Take the job offering now which is driving dump trucks in San Diego which is 100 miles from where I live, but pays about 50k a year. I suppose I could try and take night classes to finish my degree but not sure where or how to do that. Or I could work there for a couple years and bank maybe around $40k and then go back to school. Or try and use the banked money to start a business.
So those are my two options. I have a very small income now and barely make it as long as the company I'm working for remains intact. By the way I'm 26.
3 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
If you can, I'd stay in school. The Business Degree will offer you long term income, whereas the option to work now, is in the short term and the increases may not offset what you would lose by not finishing your degree. Take it from someone who didn't finish.
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- roderick_youngLv 71 decade ago
If I could possibly survive, I would stay in school and finish. The longer you stay away from school, the greater the chance that you will never go back. If your company goes under, then you can re-evaluate your plan, then. It could be worth looking for a more stable job close to school now.