Silicon Valley's entrepreneur and public-relations guru Marsha Keeffer bites into the puzzling issue of why sensible people like you and me enroll in law, business and graduate schools.
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Degree-Getting, according to Marsha Keeffer [MKeeffer@gmail.com], who confesses to having an MBA:
"Jane, we get these degrees, even though they're expensive, involve considerable sacrifice, and might not pay off in our careers because of some or all of the following realities:
- We think we'll get not only a degree but money, status, safety and a better-looking mate [Keeffer is marrying this August]
- They market to us
- We seldom check to see if the market is saturated, or even just good
- Our family expects us to
- It reinforces our ego
- It makes us feel superior to the poor schulb working at the gas station
- It allows us to feed the #1 American passion - shopping for stuff
- Our college counselors [if indeed there is such an entity any more] encourage us with testing
- We'd, at heart, rather be in the office making deals [read Halliburton] than in a foxhole [read U.S. Army]
- Our insatiable desire for more, including degrees, keeps us from the painful job of looking inside ourselves."
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Marsha Keeffer is a frequent contributor to this and my other syndicated blog.
Those who have one degree too many are welcome to leave a comment or contact me at Mgenova981@aol.com.
Meanwhile another useful read on not taking this road more traveled is Dan Slater's article today in the WALL STREET JOURNAL Law Blog on "What Holds Unhappy Lawyers Back From Leaving?"
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