Re: FLASH: Salaries - MBA thoughts?

[Sonja ***]

I hardly ever get a minute to respond to any of the interesting topics, but 

this one that I could not ignore.


I, like you am attending graduate school (9 credits a semester, which I was 

advised against) and working 50+ hours in the multimedia field. I will be 

done with a MS in Multimedia Technology in July, prior to grad school I had 

absolultely no experience in the field.


What I have I heard from many people who have been in the industry, but who 

have no formal education, is that those of us with master's degrees, despite 

our abilities ( or lack there of) are hired to "boss" those without degrees.


I have also learned that employers get bombarded with resumes and inquiries 

from people with exceptional talent that they are now weeding out the 

candidates based on their "education".  It turns out that I enrolled in a 

multimedia graduate program when there were only 2 schools offering such.  I 

have to be honest in saying that one of the primary reasons that I was able 

to land a job in the field, getting the salary that I wanted, was less about 

my "experience" and perhaps even "talent", but more about the fact that I am 

about to receive a piece of paper.


Ok, nuff gibberish :-)  Stick with your studies...all of the talent in the 

world will not help you should employers decide that they are only 

interested in interviewing people with degrees.



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