When I enrolled in graduate school but before I started classes this same person (bad tipper) advised me against going for my Masters Degree. He said that kind of education was excessive and would not return a profit.
"What"?
That's right. This is when I was forced to realize I'd invested a few years into a friendship that was non-existent. We were friends only in my mind. That little sack of cow dung did not want for me to succeed in life and that is why he advised and pressured me against obtaining a Masters Degree.
"Wasting my money on a useless piece of paper. Overpriced and undervalued"
Fuck you too Dennis! ----- One of your girlfriends inspired me to write this. Absent that inspiration you would not be reading these harsh but true words.
The numbers are something like this. And you are a numbers guy. Average income for a person with a college degree is around 57K (fifty seven thousand dollars per year). The average income for someone with a Masters Degree is around 78K (seventy eight thousand dollars).
The average cost for that degree depends upon going to public school or private, 28k and 38k respectively.
Within a year or so of obtaining my Masters Degree I was offered and took a job (IT Consulting to the Federal Government) paying over eighty thousand dollars per year salary, that was base pay not including bonuses and profit sharing. Between my full time job and my part time job (Adjunct faculty at JJC) I was making close to 100K. (not bad for a former marijuana trafficker and ex-con). None of that would have happened without my Masters Degree. The Federal Government granted me a security clearance.
When I was in grad school I was teaching (Adjunct Faculty) for a college/company that I'd signed an agreement with (Harrington College in Chicago, IL i.e. Career Education Corp) to reimburse 80% of my tuition upon finishing grad school or something to that effect. When I finish grad school CEC wrote me off the schedule and failed to honor the contract I signed with them for tuition reimbursement. When you are a billion dollar corporation you can fuck over anyone you like. Money can buy you almost anything in America. Money can buy you justice and money can buy you injustice if that's what you seek.
There's a great line in the move And Justice For All.
In this movie Al Pacino played a criminal defense lawyer. One of his lines, something to the effect:
"The courts in America do not exist to provide justice they exist to provide the chance for justice"
It may just be a movie but truer words were never spoken. If you expect justice in America you better have lots and lots of money.
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