Free Yourself from the Career Rut

By Charles Hodge

What can be more rewarding, to both the heart and the mind, than achieving a college or postgraduate degree? What is more likely to improve your career, broaden your life, and increase your income? Nothing -- yet until recently you might never have been able to dream of being able to accomplish that. Now, with online education and online degrees many can accomplish what was one the chance of a privileged few.

The variety of online degrees available is astounding. Whether you are looking for an undergraduate degree in liberal arts, or an advanced degree in business, or a certificate in a particular area of training, online education can give you access to programs and institutions around the world, from world famous universities to small community colleges to programs that are and always have been designed for online education.

To begin the journey that leads to online degrees, just Google for education in your areas of interest. You will be amazed how quickly you will start finding providers, offering an array of online education beyond belief. Once you have checked out a few and decided which programs interest you then filling out an online form, sending an email, or dialing an 800 number will put you directly in touch with advisors who will be delighted to help you work out a program to get whichever online degrees you hope for.

If you are worried about financing you should know that most of the traditional methods of educational finance are available to online students: loans, grants, scholarships and employer-backed continuing education programs have all been used to help defray the costs of getting an online education. In some, if not all instances the costs of getting your online degrees will be lower than the cost of comparable degrees from a traditional college or university, also -- not because the value of the degree is lower, but because the cost of maintaining campus, on-site faculty and staff, and other overhead costs are so reduced for online providers.

Most adults find online education a perfect choice in terms of scheduling. With the flexibility to allow you to sort your daily class schedule to match your daily obligations, and with no commute or obligatory in-class time, you will find you are free to work on a fluid basis. Taking part in class discussions is much like posting to a social forum. With the ability to turn in homework, papers, and take tests online you will find that getting degrees online is much less demanding of your scheduling genius than it would otherwise be.

For most of history people had no real choice what they would do with their lives. A man or woman was born to the plow or the craft bench, and from late childhood to the grave a person could spend forty years doing little more than swinging a hammer or guiding a plow. Now, however, thanks to the great availability of online education you can make your own choices about your future: nursing or law, accounting or business, all are open to you, just for bothering to get the appropriate online degrees.

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