I have been giving some serious thought to giving up on a second bachelors degree (in computer science) at the university at going back to the community college and doing their fairly new (to me) computer forensics specialty in their criminal justice (2-year associates) degree.
I've completed about 3/4 of the CS degree and honestly I don't know that I really need two bachelors degrees. The computer programming industry doesn't look to hot right now and my other passion is law enforcement. The reason for the sudden change is that the CS program at my university has been completely overhauled and as of this next school year they are no longer offering the "old" classes. I REALLY do not feel like taking a bunch of lower-division classes with a bunch of freshmeat just to get back to where I am now.
I have been toying with this idea for a few weeks now and I've come up with a few thoughts: is a second bachelors degree really worth it? Probably not (a masters would be.) My GPA is pretty low and I doubt any graduate school would consider me which was the direction I was trying to go with the CS degree.
So I have a bachelor of arts in history with a computer science minor and I completed about 3/4 of a bachelor of science in computer science. That should still be respectable to any decent employer.
I have had a hard time coming to this decision but I am learning that I do not have to have a bachelors degree as a computer science major to be a happy nerd.
Plus who cares about the degree after you get hired and have been working for a few years? Probably no one.
I've completed about 3/4 of the CS degree and honestly I don't know that I really need two bachelors degrees. The computer programming industry doesn't look to hot right now and my other passion is law enforcement. The reason for the sudden change is that the CS program at my university has been completely overhauled and as of this next school year they are no longer offering the "old" classes. I REALLY do not feel like taking a bunch of lower-division classes with a bunch of freshmeat just to get back to where I am now.
I have been toying with this idea for a few weeks now and I've come up with a few thoughts: is a second bachelors degree really worth it? Probably not (a masters would be.) My GPA is pretty low and I doubt any graduate school would consider me which was the direction I was trying to go with the CS degree.
So I have a bachelor of arts in history with a computer science minor and I completed about 3/4 of a bachelor of science in computer science. That should still be respectable to any decent employer.
I have had a hard time coming to this decision but I am learning that I do not have to have a bachelors degree as a computer science major to be a happy nerd.
Plus who cares about the degree after you get hired and have been working for a few years? Probably no one.