My employer will pay for most of the cost of an undergrad degree. I already have a Bachelor of Public Administration, but I’m not eligible for reimbursement of a graduate degree for another 4 years. In the meantime, it seems like a waste to not take the tuition assistance if it’s available.
They won’t reimburse me unless it ties in with my current job and adds to a need in the organization blah blah. So I think I have found two degrees that they might approve; a management degree with an emphasis in logistics, or one in occupational safety and health.
My goal is to enhance my current career, but also to set myself up for a job after I retire in 11 years or so. I currently work in motor carrier safety and regulation, including federal hazmat regs as they pertain to motor carriers.
Surely there are folks in both these fields floating around here somewhere…I’m getting down to decision time, so any input would be welcome.
I am in neither of those fields, but based on your OP I would say take the management one if you want to increase your value to your (or a future) employer in the near future, knowing more management will help with promotions and the like. But you said you want to be better equipped for after you retire, so then the health and safety degree sounds better because the post-retirement job is safety related.
Thanks! I should have also said that the only management job I’m likely to get promoted to won’t open for another 8-9 years…so while a degree has to be related to my job, my main goal is post-retirement/2nd career rather than feather in the hat for current job.
I pretty sure I had settled on OSH, but laid awake last night wondering if I had made the correct decision.
Personally I would go with the safety. It could just be personal but I see that as a better jump to a totally different kind of company or situation and I can think of a few ways it would be of use to me after I retire. Our safety manager at work (warehouse) is a former teacher who used the second degree to basically make the jump away from kids to adults.
Fooled him ------- most of our adults act like kids most of the time