I can see their point about those with a Masters being less employable than a college-based program. Masters programs, in general, tend to be much more theory based than skill based. Masters like English Lit or History or Philosophy and such are the obvious theory heavy ones, but even more specialized, career-focused, Masters programs are more based in theory than a college based course (if there are other factors I'm ignorant of in this generalization though, I'd welcome correction).
As such, I don't think that it would be useful/advantageous/sane of me to embark on another Masters - if I were to do it over again though I would absolutely do a Master of Fine Arts degree instead. When I got out of school and was looking for jobs that interest me I found, more and more, that what most of the dream jobs had in common were a MFA (or equivalent experience, blah blah blah) - nowhere did I find listed a Master of Arts degree in English Literature as a requirement. I may or may not have been still be in the same spot I'm in now, but at least I could have studied something I really, really, really love and move on from there.
From here on in it's all about the college courses - I'm going to Teachers college next, and I think that I'll pick up some courses in things that interest me, art and creative-wise, along the way.
Now, to get this PhD idea out of my head and out of my life ...
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Date: 2009-01-07 05:30 pm (UTC)I can see their point about those with a Masters being less employable than a college-based program. Masters programs, in general, tend to be much more theory based than skill based. Masters like English Lit or History or Philosophy and such are the obvious theory heavy ones, but even more specialized, career-focused, Masters programs are more based in theory than a college based course (if there are other factors I'm ignorant of in this generalization though, I'd welcome correction).
As such, I don't think that it would be useful/advantageous/sane of me to embark on another Masters - if I were to do it over again though I would absolutely do a Master of Fine Arts degree instead. When I got out of school and was looking for jobs that interest me I found, more and more, that what most of the dream jobs had in common were a MFA (or equivalent experience, blah blah blah) - nowhere did I find listed a Master of Arts degree in English Literature as a requirement. I may or may not have been still be in the same spot I'm in now, but at least I could have studied something I really, really, really love and move on from there.
From here on in it's all about the college courses - I'm going to Teachers college next, and I think that I'll pick up some courses in things that interest me, art and creative-wise, along the way.
Now, to get this PhD idea out of my head and out of my life ...