Education/Jobs question

[Arlos]

DO be aware that a cert with zero experience behind it means almost nothing. It's well known hohw easy it is to get a MCSE from one of the cert mills, and thus turn yourself into a "paper MCSE". That will get you almost exactly nowhere with any company that knows what it's doing.

-Arlos

[Diekan]

So my brother in law is 33 and sick of his dead end job. He don't want to come and work with me cause he don't like "manual labor".

He's plan is to do Online education in Kapaln University, while working, to get an Associate in IS/Networking, than their 12 month advanced program to get Bachelors in IT/Networking, than get a job in that field and go for Masters in real university for Network and System Security.

Everyone in family is telling him not to do it. My wife wants me to talk him out of it, but i'm not sure if i should

So my question is, is there jobs in this field, and will he be able to get a job with that kind of education?

Kaplan University has a very good online program.

On par with Oxford in fact!

Some big corporations send their executives there for advanced degrees.

Breaker, breaker there good buddy....

It's called a TAX WRITE OFF.

No business sends an employee 'off to college' out of the kindness their executive collect heart... they to write it off at the end of the year.

Why would they rather an up and coming employee choose a joke of an institution like Kaplan over say.... Penn State? Because they KNOW it's a laughable program and they know the employee won't be bogged down with school work that may reduce his productivity. That's why.

If you really think you're going to be able to swing an MBA from Kaplan and compete with an MBA from the University of <insert your state of choice here>... you're retarded.

SENDING an ALREADY existing employee to Kaplan so you can get a nice fat tax write off at the end of the year - and with the comfort of knowing he/she isn't going to have to put in much work for it (keeping them focused on being productive on the job) ........ IS NOT THE SAME ...... as getting a "degree" from Kaplan and then going out and trying to GET a job. Understand? Or, do I need to break out the picture book for you?

[Tikker]

I think his point was actually that people chose to spend their tax write off dollars there, as opposed to somewhere else...