collegiate degree - pole

After I got out of the USCG, I started school immediately and flew through it. I finished in 3 1/2 years. I chose an easy path, though - Criminal Justice. Because I just needed the piece of paper to get a federal civil service job. However, school did give me an opportunity to learn how to organize and prioritize and how I best learned new things. That has served me well in my career. Later on, I decided that an MBA would help my career. I tell you what, I had to learn twice as much as everyone else in the program because I didn't have a good knowledge base with many of the course subjects. Did the MBA help? Maybe. I use some of that knowledge in my current position, but I had to relearn/refresh a lot of it because it has been a while.