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You make it sound like it's easy. It's not, even if you're with a company that has generous tuition reimbursement it's no easy feat. That and the fact that a 4 year degree and $2.00 will get you a small coffee at Starbucks.
Me too. Are you slated to be in the Sept 9 class?
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For the AHA position..do I need to have long distance dialing or just use a basic local calls only landline phone?
This is one of the main reasons that I'm inclined to move along whenever I get the chance. The tuition reimbursement is handy, but there are people with 4-year degrees flipping burgers at McDonald's right now.
I'll actually have a good shot at getting into a high-level MBA program after graduation, based on my GMAT scores, but $5,000 a year in reimbursement doesn't take much of a bite out of $80-100,000 in yearly tuition and fees. Those programs require either independent wealth or a company that will partner with you and sponsor the degree. I'm pretty sure AppleCare isn't going to send me to Wharton or Booth. And once you get outside the top 10-15 schools, even an MBA isn't much of an investment these days.
So the calculation at this point is that it's better to spend my time doing grunt work for a company where I may have a future than to spend it doing grunt work for Apple. If I can find one with a decent MBA sponsorship, so much the better. If not, then I'll keep resetting passwords for a while longer and keep my eyes open.
I just wish that $192,000 a year dude would stop back by and tell us where he ended up. It's been a few weeks now, so maybe he could tell me if the new mystery company is worth checking out.
All valid points. And I know a few MBA's that are doing customer service jobs now because they did not graduate from an ivy league school.
If I was 25 again and knew what I know now, I'd probably head to a community college and take something like CNC or HVAC or I'd focus on Cisco certifications or similar. If not school then I'd go back to be-bopping around SE Asia and teaching english... had a blast doing that.
If I were 25 again, and knew what I know now, I definitely wouldn't hook up with that chick from work. That got complicated in a hurry. I did have a blast doing it though.
If I were 35 again, I'd do... everything differently. 35 was a bad year.
45 is still a little way off, so we'll have to wait and see about that one.
You still have some time. After 50 though, it gets tough if you're looking for upward mobility.
On the plus side, I don't do as much stupid stuff as I did 30 years ago.
You really need to contact HR about tuition reimbursement. This forum is a poor source for info like that.
I use a logitech keyboard and mouse and no, they won't know what you're using.
I'm not sure why anyone would bother. They send a cheap featureless phone because that's all you need. The call is handled on Apple's end and then routed to your phone number. All you do is lift the handset to answer the call and start talking into the headset. After the call, you hang up the handset.
Theoretically, you could probably do this with any number of telephone models. I'm just not sure what would be the point. They sent me a free phone to use, so that's the phone I use.
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