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This article seems to be exclusively about masters degrees or people going back to school for a second degree in a new field, but what I'm curious about is if there's been a similar spike in people going for their first degree. I'm trying to figure out how much of this is people trying to land a job in a recession and how much of it is people trying to make themselves appealing from an immigration perspective. There's definitely a lot of people who feel like getting out of the country is a nonstarter simply because countries only want the kind of labor that comes from obtaining a degree in a field.
I’m in that boat. Joined the IT world before the first .com crash, dropped out of school for it and never got a degree. I’m very stuck right now and I hate the career I’m stuck in. Trying to find a way to go back to get a degree, maybe open a door or two…
I'm doing similar from the same field. IT burned me tf out. And then lit the ashes. Already have a degree but I'm trying to change fields now. Don't want to even look at a server