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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I want to get my degree. No kids, but I'm in IT. When I went to secondary education, they didn't have degree courses for IT. They have a few now, and I'm starting to see "degree" being a requirement in job postings for my line of work...

The problem I have is that I can't even apply to universities for the course, they only offer it as a full time course. I have bills to pay, I can't possibly take 4 years off to get a degree. I have 10 years of experience in IT support. I just want to move up to more senior positions, I have no interest in management. I like being in the trenches with my fellow techs. I can't move because most of the places I've worked for are pretty small shops; so I'm at the highest level, but the highest level is barely above helpdesk.

My main issue is that I don't know universities and their enrollment systems well enough to even start to obtain my degree. I can't get them to talk to me; every time I send an inquiry, they give me the most generic and useless info, then tell me that they can tell me more if I'm accepted, meaning I have to apply/enroll first, and they don't have an option to enroll part time for a course I'm interested in.

Sigh.