ACCEPTED into Georgia Tech's OMS Cybersecurity!

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I wont give the long answer since I have a bit of a history on this forum that's easy to look up (and I'm sure you're not actually interested in the answer based on your history here thus far... ); so the short answer...

right after high school, not having an actual career plan, i started my soc/psych AA degree (waffled between both) at a community college, then stupidly dropped out when i started a seemingly "professional" career at a young age (it turned into something great by luck, but was a dumb gamble in hindsight). when i came back to school for more personal satisfaction/HR checkbox purposes, i did a quick/easy (but more importantly cheap) degree plan to finish up based on the credits i already had in the career-unrelated psych field. then i realized i actually enjoyed the non-traditional school process, so i went on to finish up an actually career-relevant degree that also earned some industry certs that i knew would be even more helpful than a second degree. And all for free due to my employer tuition reimbursement benefit. 

now i've kept going, and will shortly be done with 12 (out of 32) grad credits for this program -- and still plan on getting a second grad degree at this point if GT doesn't kill me/my will to fight on. Probably a boring MBA, since I can justify my work throwing more tuition reimbursement at me for it. But if it were possible (it isn't), I'd rather figure out a way to do a non-trad graduate psych (or soc ) degree for fun on my employer's dime, since that is my first love, would be way more interesting, and all my career tech stuff is more easily kept up with outside of academia. But that, as opposed to an MBA IT Management degree, would certainly be of no use to my employer at this stage