Build your own degree

[cookderosa]

It's not the general Ed I want to get out of lol. This actually would be a secondary bachelors for me. I want to get it in Security Management, but most of the classes offered are too heavy in law enforcement related material with only one or two classes in private security. And the ones that are primary security don't have the material I most want to learn. I want This degree just for the material that ill be learning in the classes as ill already have 2 degrees (1AAS and 1 BS) by that point, but want to show on my rÃsumà that I do know the information.

I'm not familiar with that field, but I've advised students in my own field, so I'll suggest to you what I've suggested to them. Find a real person, make calls, use whatever resources (friend of a friend of a cousin's neighbor) and find someone in the field you want to be in. Talk to them. Ask them how they learned what they know. What are the paths to get there? What would they do in today's climate that is maybe different than when they started? Is there a good, better, or best way to break into this job? Are their really really TERRIBLE things that would prevent you from getting in? Lastly, can you call on them again? Maybe in 6 months to check in. Maybe in that 6 months you find 1 or 2 or 3 others in the field and do the same. Build a network of reliable resources. I promise you, with 100% certainty, that the people doing the job everyday will be very direct and can give you better career advice than anyone of us here. Education is not always the best route (my real field is as a chef, and even today with culinary arts being on TV, a degree isn't worth squat- its what you can do on the job that counts).

Finally, I want to tell you that I had considered a career change, and I did exactly what I suggested to you- I even did a job shadow in an office for 40 hours over a month plus took a volunteer job (that I ended up keeping lol for 2 years lol) but I had researched TO DEATH this that and the other educational plan. At the end of the day, the workers all brought me back into a reality check. At the end of the day, the degree wasn't going to be as important as I had worked it up in MY mind to be. Had I ended up going in the direction I planned (before) I would have dumped extra time and money (lots of both) to end up at the same starting gate as those who took a simple straight forward (much less education) approach.

I'm not trying to say that you're right or wrong, I'm just suggesting that "if" this type of training you seek were as essential to the job, then a program would probably exist. If it's just your particular interest, as opposed to a credential, then don't focus on the degree- you can fill your plate with seminars, conventions, continuing education, professional development courses, certifications, and on the job training or volunteer work. I do wish you the best!