You guys are wise here. Yes I'll go to school and get my degree but right now it seems like financially it's a joke. At the end of the day I need to convince myself that I'm doing this for me and not the money. I'm fairly educated I believe in many ways. But maybe there's something more I'm missing here that will drive me to believe I will get something in return out of it for me - and not just a 2 or 4 year degree piece of paper.
Degrees are not elite. People who have degrees aren't better than others. They have their function but you really need to be clear on that before you waste your time.
At your stage, literally the only thing you'll get is a well exercised ability to learn quick - something you probably already have?
You'll have forgotten most of what you have learned in 6 months and if you were a kid, you'd probably have already cashed that piece of paper to get your foot in the door, somewhere.
If you value that, that's cool - but don't think that you're about to walk out with mystic knowledge on how to be successful because it's just not what degrees are about. They are mostly a tour through miscellaneous subjects within a discipline, quite often without any particularly rhyme or reason (because the field is expansive enough for them to not be able to hit all topics).
The other thing (and it is a huge one), degrees are generally run by people who have lived in academia their whole life and have limited commercial experience.
Be very careful about wasting your time.
