I started it in July 2017 after having been out of school for 11 years. It was tough, I actually thought about quitting after my first 2 quarters but I kept at it. It was trying to drink from a fire hose but as I got further along in the program, I learned how to learn and built my network of peers who we shared the misery with.
Never thought I would get into a private school for graduate school, didn't think I could afford graduate school but both dreams came true. Met a lot of wonderful people along the way. Huge credit to my family for putting up with the late nights and long hours of reading case studies, writing and doing group assignments.
It wasn't easy but I did it.
But it doesn't stop there, with 17 months of GI Bill remaining, I applied to, and was accepted, to a Master in Human Resources program at a local college. I will start that in late August.
Now I focus on networking and finding a career.
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June 20, 2019, 08:39 AM
ArtieS
Congratulations, my friend!
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
June 20, 2019, 08:39 AM
erj_pilot
Congrats! From where?
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
June 20, 2019, 08:42 AM
recoatlift
I also wish to congratulate you! “Never,Never,Never Give Up!” Job well done sir!
June 20, 2019, 08:45 AM
Elk Hunter
Congratulations!!! Well done!
I know what you have done and accomplished having been thru that struggle while working 60+ hours per week.
Wish you much success in your future endeavors.
Elk
There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour)
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson
"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville
FBHO!!!
The Idaho Elk Hunter
June 20, 2019, 08:51 AM
Pipe Smoker
Congrats! Now you make a plan to take over the CEO position at your company.
Serious about crackers.
June 20, 2019, 09:06 AM
k5blazer
Congrats
June 20, 2019, 09:11 AM
V-Tail
Great!
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים
June 20, 2019, 09:38 AM
LS1 GTO
Congratulations!!!
I finished mine from Embry-Riddle three years ago (or so) and it was focused on Aviation. It was an MBAA (MBA-Aviation).
Where did you earn yours from?
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
"If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers
The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own...
June 20, 2019, 09:40 AM
6guns
Excellent! Congratulations!
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June 20, 2019, 09:52 AM
blueye
Nice.
June 20, 2019, 10:04 AM
nhtagmember
awesome
congrats
going back to school later in life can be a real chore
[B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC
June 20, 2019, 10:06 AM
jhe888
Good work!
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
June 20, 2019, 10:31 AM
Powers77
Good luck on the HR degree. My wife has it as a Master's in addition to her business undergraduate. I've been trying to get a hire done this week. A good and competent HR professional is a godsend. Unfortunately they seem to be almost as rare as unicorns. The wife rose quick in a Fortune 50 because she is someone who does what she promised when she promised. In 28 years at my Fortune 60 company I've encountered one that wasn't a waste of carbon.
ETA: You are obviously on a fast track. You hit the market with your attitude and those degrees and you will do very well. Realized what I posted above didn't really reflect what I was trying to say. Congratulations and good luck.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Powers77,
June 20, 2019, 10:31 AM
M-11
Been there, done that with going back to school later in life. Congrats!!
"Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up." -Kyle Farnsworth "Freedom of Speech does not guarantee freedom from consequences." -Mike Rowe "Democracies aren't overthrown, they're given away." -George Lucas
June 20, 2019, 10:40 AM
rsbolo
Congratulations!
____________________________ Yes, Para does appreciate humor.
June 20, 2019, 10:40 AM
Prefontaine
Congrats man. I envy you. I'm finally starting the process for a double MBA and I'll be in my 50's once completed. Excellent effort sir!
What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone
June 20, 2019, 11:57 AM
Edmond
quote:
Originally posted by erj_pilot: Congrats! From where?
American University in DC.
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June 20, 2019, 12:08 PM
Turning_gal
Congratulations! Proud of you for sticking it out.
June 20, 2019, 12:55 PM
Gustofer
Good for you!
Sounds like you are on a similar path as myself some years ago. Not really knowing where you are going but knowing you have to go somewhere. So...you just keep moving up.
You'll get there.
________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton.
and what a journey it had been.
