{"id":37614,"date":"2013-08-01T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37614"},"modified":"2013-07-31T12:01:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T17:01:40","slug":"if-i-hit-the-powerball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37614","title":{"rendered":"If I Hit The Powerball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although there was a general assumption when I was in high school and college that I&#8217;d wind up in some kind of graduate school or another, I stopped with the formal schooling (as distinct from getting an education) with my BA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I did it for a couple of reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nothing that I&#8217;d <em>want <\/em>to get an MA or Ph.D. in &#8211; Linguistics, History, German, Writing &#8211; would enhance my career, or at least not to the point that there&#8217;d be a return on investment.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>I have absolutely no interest in a business degree.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure that I could find anyplace nearby to <em>get <\/em>the MA in my field; there are less than 10 places in the country to get a BA in anything like my field, and maybe 3-4 that I know of on the grad level.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>And if I did?\u00a0 Not only would getting an advanced degree in my current vocational field &#8211; User Experience &#8211; have little to no return on investment, it might actually slow me down.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So unless I hit the powerball &#8211; which might lead me to a design-your-own &#8220;Masters&#8221; in German, writing, history and filmmmaking from whatever institution that&#8217;d let me put it together &#8211; I strongly doubt you&#8217;ll see me darken the door of a grad school, ever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But if <a href=\"http:\/\/humorresearchlab.org\/\">this <\/a>were closer than Boulder, I could see myself changing my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although there was a general assumption when I was in high school and college that I&#8217;d wind up in some kind of graduate school or another, I stopped with the formal schooling (as distinct from getting an education) with my BA.\u00a0 I did it for a couple of reasons: Nothing that I&#8217;d want to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37633,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37614\/revisions\/37633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}