First, again as with most thank you everyone for all this information I feel like a kid in a candy store sorting through all these options that for someone like me never new existed.
Short/Brief Background on me left high school straight into the IT field, self learner through trial and error into and through all aspects of Technology. Design, infrastructure, engineering and development with primary focus on Wan side and IS and currently hold a Directors position in IT with a Mid-Size company so its been an adventure over the past 18+ yrs for sure.
Now the question here is, I have technology which is what I am good at, enjoy if you bypass the politics of getting out of the trenches and tend to be pretty good at what I do. However no formal "degree" but as anybody in this field knows unless your in the Fortune 500 group degrees do not way as heavy as experience, in fact I would rather hire with 4yrs experience vs 4yrs of college in a heartbeat(not heartbleed
)..most of my team now do not consist of degreed employees.
That being said, it would be nice to have a degree to throw on and feel like from the testing out perspective a BSBA IS degree would fit nicely with what I do and probably would be able to test out on the majority of these simply from experience.
Second part, counseling/psychology has been a huge passion for me mainly focused on CBT/DBT behavioral and emotionally driven aspects think adler, ellis etc etc and something I have always wanted to pursue on a more formal aspect. Now given the requirements for supervised hours alone it would prove hard to make a career switch at this point, not saying impossible, but hard managing 3k hours along with a full time job but its pay vs passion at this point with me. Over the years of my career, everyone I have mentored has always left or moved on noting the same aspect of how much the grew personally as much as professionally, its just a natural tendency I have for perspectives and progressive growth as a person. Sure I can teach you the ins and out of networking and architecture but I feel a good leader should grow a person internally as well towards a greater good.
The question in general here is would there be a test out path that could cover the majority of both of these, regardless of time that would obviously focusing on the specifically needed course separately for each degree. Just trying to get a grasp on not duplicating effort if there is some cross-over that can be made.
Short/Brief Background on me left high school straight into the IT field, self learner through trial and error into and through all aspects of Technology. Design, infrastructure, engineering and development with primary focus on Wan side and IS and currently hold a Directors position in IT with a Mid-Size company so its been an adventure over the past 18+ yrs for sure.
Now the question here is, I have technology which is what I am good at, enjoy if you bypass the politics of getting out of the trenches and tend to be pretty good at what I do. However no formal "degree" but as anybody in this field knows unless your in the Fortune 500 group degrees do not way as heavy as experience, in fact I would rather hire with 4yrs experience vs 4yrs of college in a heartbeat(not heartbleed
)..most of my team now do not consist of degreed employees.That being said, it would be nice to have a degree to throw on and feel like from the testing out perspective a BSBA IS degree would fit nicely with what I do and probably would be able to test out on the majority of these simply from experience.
Second part, counseling/psychology has been a huge passion for me mainly focused on CBT/DBT behavioral and emotionally driven aspects think adler, ellis etc etc and something I have always wanted to pursue on a more formal aspect. Now given the requirements for supervised hours alone it would prove hard to make a career switch at this point, not saying impossible, but hard managing 3k hours along with a full time job but its pay vs passion at this point with me. Over the years of my career, everyone I have mentored has always left or moved on noting the same aspect of how much the grew personally as much as professionally, its just a natural tendency I have for perspectives and progressive growth as a person. Sure I can teach you the ins and out of networking and architecture but I feel a good leader should grow a person internally as well towards a greater good.
The question in general here is would there be a test out path that could cover the majority of both of these, regardless of time that would obviously focusing on the specifically needed course separately for each degree. Just trying to get a grasp on not duplicating effort if there is some cross-over that can be made.
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