http://manpowerblogs.com/holmes/2008/03/19/to-mba-or-not-to-mba/ Welcome to the Contemporary Working Blog Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:31:53 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://manpowerblogs.com/holmes/2008/03/19/to-mba-or-not-to-mba/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Nan Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:46:15 +0000 http://manpowerblogs.com/holmes/2008/03/19/to-mba-or-not-to-mba/#comment-179 No degree is a 'golden ticket' to job success. Perhaps our focus needs to shift from acquiring the initials (BS,MBA,PHD) and ‘being finished’ with education to a process of lifelong learning. We should never stop learning. It should be a continued process of striving to grow, stretch and increase our knowledge in the light new discoveries and advancements. When I attended college computer programming was a heavy burden of computer punch cards held in long cardboard boxes. A friend was reduced to hysterical tears when her box crashed to floor ruining her program. Technology has rocketed past the punch card system but what about the computer programming degree from the past? Unless the programmers of the past committed to a lifelong learning philosophy their old knowledge would have no place in the current field of computer programming. Learning should always be part of our lives. The benefits far out weigh the inconveniences including staving off the aging process of the ‘little gray cells’. No degree is a ‘golden ticket’ to job success. Perhaps our focus needs to shift from acquiring the initials (BS,MBA,PHD) and ‘being finished’ with education to a process of lifelong learning. We should never stop learning. It should be a continued process of striving to grow, stretch and increase our knowledge in the light new discoveries and advancements. When I attended college computer programming was a heavy burden of computer punch cards held in long cardboard boxes. A friend was reduced to hysterical tears when her box crashed to floor ruining her program. Technology has rocketed past the punch card system but what about the computer programming degree from the past? Unless the programmers of the past committed to a lifelong learning philosophy their old knowledge would have no place in the current field of computer programming. Learning should always be part of our lives. The benefits far out weigh the inconveniences including staving off the aging process of the ‘little gray cells’.

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