Should I go ahead and do it? She suggested that I may be able to move up the career ladder if I go ahead and get my Masters in Information Tech. I currently work as a database architect for a contractor but I feel that having my masters will elevate me from a marketable standpoint to my current and future employers.

Should I go after it? Is it even worth the cost to get a degree in a saturated field such as IT at this point?

If you have the finances to go for it, then do it. My wife did the same thing (went out for her masters in business administration) and it’s worked out for her career.

nope

Ever ask yourself why she wants you put of the house more often?

Don't do it.
Can't you see that she is just setting you up?
You will go to school, go into debt to pay for it, hopefully find a job and get a big increase in your income and BAM!she will take you for everything you earned because she is having an affair with Rodrigo, your gardener from Culmore.

OP, does your wife have her masters? If not...that's fucking rich right there...

Are you currently working in the field? Will it have a tangential impact on your prospects for improvement? Will your employer pay for it? These are the questions you should ask before getting your Masters.

OP's wife needs him out of the house 3 nights a week so she can get with this...
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Asker.Of.Things Wrote:
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> OP, does your wife have her masters? If
> not...that's fucking rich right there...

She does, yeah. Her thing is, I am wasting my potential and not maximizing my income potential if I just remain with a B.S.

She is setting you up for the big divorce payoff

How old are you? 35 yea, 60 no. Aren't certificates a better ROI in the IT field? You could also stay home (this would ensure your wife isn't banging anyone else, in your home anyways) and just learn whatever you need to learn by yourself. The interwebs has endless amounts of free schools.

If you're an average employee though and need a resume to get hired, go get your masters, at some expensive school preferably. As a business owner who hires programmers, I would take someone with a GED over someone with a masters if the person with the GED has a great portfolio and real world skills.

PostgreSQL Wrote:
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> How old are you? 35 yea, 60 no. Aren't
> certificates a better ROI in the IT field? You
> could also stay home (this would ensure your wife
> isn't banging anyone else, in your home anyways)
> and just learn whatever you need to learn by
> yourself. The interwebs has endless amounts of
> free schools.
>
> If you're an average employee though and need a
> resume to get hired, go get your masters, at some
> expensive school preferably. As a business owner
> who hires programmers, I would take someone with a
> GED over someone with a masters if the person with
> the GED has a great portfolio and real world
> skills.

I'm 29 years old, was hired right out of college. I fell that I've sort of maxed out earnings and promotion wise and its largely due to the fact I don't have that Masters degree that others in my field have which gives them a leg up.

PostgreSQL Wrote:


> As a business owner who hires programmers, I would take someone with a
> GED over someone with a masters if the person with
> the GED has a great portfolio and real world skills.


Plus you don't need to fork out top pay, and you can send them out to wash your car everyday at 3pm.

Get the degree, it will be the simplest way in the long run. There are a few other ways but it's not easy.

It sounds like you will be paying the cost yourself (not the company). So, I definitely wouldn't do it. Also, for DB Admin or DB Architect, there is not much you can learn in masters except big data processing (map/reduce, distributed and parallel computing etc.), which you can easily learn on your own.

By the way masters degree means +2 yrs of additional experience. Nothing more than that. So, if your boss says he can't give you a raise or promotion due to your lack of masters degree, he is lying.

OP, have you considered getting certified in other areas? That can really help you from a professional standpoint.

I have a master's in debating.

I'm a master-de-bater.

Grow a pair and make up your own mind.

Many of my employees wasted their time getting masters degrees. Some of them assume I have one, but I don't. Effort was better spent learning on the job and building business relationships.

Yes go back to school for your masters.
Take weds and fri night courses.

I will come to your house and service your white wife with my BBC.

Get your masters!
I will be getting my PhD in interracial breeding.

It depends. Are you going to learn anything new? Would you be better off getting your certs in red hat, security+, aws? Or is this a bucket list item?

I kicked it around a few years ago and decided that it wasn't to help me job wise, I wasn't going to really learn anything new.

Why don't you apply for a new job at a couple of places and if if they offer you more money. Alternatively, tell your wife to get a second job to make up for your lack of career growth.