21 credits in less than 1 month

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I appreciate all the congrats from everybody! In regards to P00057870's post, I was laid off from my manufacturing job in Feb. Very bummed out about that, but day after day of looking for work on job boards and seeing "4 year degree required" kinda hammered home the fact that a degree would be VERY helpful in today's economy.
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Patrick

Patrick,
I feel your pain. After 30 years in various area of hardware and software design, with many management positions, I find the lack of degree is killing me. All of a sudden there is no way of getting in the door because some secretary says, "oh, you don't have a degree", and hangs up.
If I pass world pop tomorrow, I will have earned 37 credits in 7 weeks, and be done with my BS finally. I am throwing my hat back in the job ring tomorrow, this time without the degree impedement.

Due to this forum I have now gone school crazy and am negotiating my MBA entrance requirements with Jacksonville State.

Keep up the faith in yourself, and realize that 90% of people in your situation are sitting around waiting for the unemployment office to help them with retraining. Make sure you use your rapid progress as a talking point during your next interview. You may want to start networking on LinkedIn if you haven't already.