I'm trying to decide on which doctorate to get where, or even to get a doctorate at all.
Current location: Washington state, USA.
Citizenship: Sweden, USA and (soon to be) Italy.
Age: Almost 33.
Budget: As cheap as possible.
Needs: A degree that is recognized in Europe, the US and Japan. I don't care about prestige. I prefer self-paced when possible but it's not a requirement. If not in my timezone then it needs to have recorded lectures or something, I can't pass classes when sessions are at 2am my time.
Commitments: I have no spouse, no kids, no pets, no house, no debts, nothing really.
Time to study: Unsure where I'll be at during the point when I can start a PhD.
Motivation: I'm visually impaired and depending on where I live also an immigrant using second language skills, thus potential employers don't see me as very valuable. Due to this struggle I was unemployed for all of my 20's and I regularly continue to have employment issues in my 30's as I only seem to get the bottom of the barrel jobs (and I'm not talking only about salary). I want better credentials to help secure decent employment.
Location: Online is my normal, but in person is ok if I can afford moving/living there. If I have to move to a physical campus, note that I can't get a driver's license so there needs to be good public transport. Also as I'm close to blind I make a good target, it needs to be a location with low crime. I prefer the countryside to the city.
Interests: My dream job would be to get handed a minority language with sentence translations and told to analyze it to write a grammar book and create a dictionary. Or to help create worksheets, books and so on in minority languages. Or to do something like design a regularized constructed language to be used as intercommunication. I enjoy teaching and translating languages however the range of that is limited as most people want native speakers and AI is quickly taking over that career field.
I love Japanese but degrees in Japanese are worthless nowadays and don't lead to any career. You have a few prospects as a native speaker but not as a non-native.
I would be interested in doing something like creating products for disabled people (stuff I wish I had) or learning programming in order to code stuff for disabled people (stuff like Chrome browser extensions, edits to Windows or modifications to Steam videogames) but I feel that's probably not within the scope of a PhD.
I'm also interested in starting my own business, I have a few ideas, one being running a hostel that incorporates language stuff. But I feel that is also not within the scope of a PhD.
I also have the hobby of genealogy. Similar to language analysis this is another "research tons of stuff and analyze it to see what fits" sort of hobby.
Languages I can read at C1 level: English (native), Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Faroese, Japanese, Esperanto.
Languages I could probably learn pretty fast (within 1-3 years) to C1 level, to meet college entry requirements: Yiddish, German, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Turkish.
Work Experience: Language teaching, hotel work, article writing, ebook creation, AI output editing/reviewing.
Finished Education:
Certificate - 120 hour TEFL
Certificate - C1 (JLPT N1) in Japanese
Benchmark - SAS 3 (C1 level) Swedish courses completed
State Exams - Praxis Core (West-B), NES 102 & 103 passed
Trade school - Hospitality
Trade school - Bartending
Associate's - Integrated Studies
Bachelor's - Japanese Language
ENEB Bachelor's / Master's - MBA, Project Management, Hotel & Tourism
Education in Progress:
WGU Master's - Elementary Education for US licensure
Timeline: Will graduate from WGU by summer 2025. Due to legal requirements regarding my WGU scholarship I will probably have to stick around for 6 to 12 months before I can physically move elsewhere. After that I should probably jump into a PhD right away since I won't be getting any younger.
Tuition assistance/reimbursement: My workplace doesn't do that.
Current location: Washington state, USA.
Citizenship: Sweden, USA and (soon to be) Italy.
Age: Almost 33.
Budget: As cheap as possible.
Needs: A degree that is recognized in Europe, the US and Japan. I don't care about prestige. I prefer self-paced when possible but it's not a requirement. If not in my timezone then it needs to have recorded lectures or something, I can't pass classes when sessions are at 2am my time.
Commitments: I have no spouse, no kids, no pets, no house, no debts, nothing really.
Time to study: Unsure where I'll be at during the point when I can start a PhD.
Motivation: I'm visually impaired and depending on where I live also an immigrant using second language skills, thus potential employers don't see me as very valuable. Due to this struggle I was unemployed for all of my 20's and I regularly continue to have employment issues in my 30's as I only seem to get the bottom of the barrel jobs (and I'm not talking only about salary). I want better credentials to help secure decent employment.
Location: Online is my normal, but in person is ok if I can afford moving/living there. If I have to move to a physical campus, note that I can't get a driver's license so there needs to be good public transport. Also as I'm close to blind I make a good target, it needs to be a location with low crime. I prefer the countryside to the city.
Interests: My dream job would be to get handed a minority language with sentence translations and told to analyze it to write a grammar book and create a dictionary. Or to help create worksheets, books and so on in minority languages. Or to do something like design a regularized constructed language to be used as intercommunication. I enjoy teaching and translating languages however the range of that is limited as most people want native speakers and AI is quickly taking over that career field.
I love Japanese but degrees in Japanese are worthless nowadays and don't lead to any career. You have a few prospects as a native speaker but not as a non-native.
I would be interested in doing something like creating products for disabled people (stuff I wish I had) or learning programming in order to code stuff for disabled people (stuff like Chrome browser extensions, edits to Windows or modifications to Steam videogames) but I feel that's probably not within the scope of a PhD.
I'm also interested in starting my own business, I have a few ideas, one being running a hostel that incorporates language stuff. But I feel that is also not within the scope of a PhD.
I also have the hobby of genealogy. Similar to language analysis this is another "research tons of stuff and analyze it to see what fits" sort of hobby.
Languages I can read at C1 level: English (native), Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Faroese, Japanese, Esperanto.
Languages I could probably learn pretty fast (within 1-3 years) to C1 level, to meet college entry requirements: Yiddish, German, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Turkish.
Work Experience: Language teaching, hotel work, article writing, ebook creation, AI output editing/reviewing.
Finished Education:
Certificate - 120 hour TEFL
Certificate - C1 (JLPT N1) in Japanese
Benchmark - SAS 3 (C1 level) Swedish courses completed
State Exams - Praxis Core (West-B), NES 102 & 103 passed
Trade school - Hospitality
Trade school - Bartending
Associate's - Integrated Studies
Bachelor's - Japanese Language
ENEB Bachelor's / Master's - MBA, Project Management, Hotel & Tourism
Education in Progress:
WGU Master's - Elementary Education for US licensure
Timeline: Will graduate from WGU by summer 2025. Due to legal requirements regarding my WGU scholarship I will probably have to stick around for 6 to 12 months before I can physically move elsewhere. After that I should probably jump into a PhD right away since I won't be getting any younger.
Tuition assistance/reimbursement: My workplace doesn't do that.
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