Perks of Receiving Your Degree Online!

Mon, 31 May 2010 18:11:17 EST

A“perk” is usually defined as a side benefit one normally doesn’tassociate with taking on a job or task. Take going for an online degreeover going on campus. The direct benefits are putting oneself in abetter position for making more money, advancing in one’s career, orjust enriching one’s knowledge.

These are all very solid reasons forattending an online college.

Thenthere are the perks. They may not get you that increase in pay, butthey sure feel sweet when you take advantage of them. Here’s a shortlist of five. There are a few more, but why ruin the surprise?

*You can wear anything while taking your courses. Itdoesn’t matter if you’re in your birthday suit, wearing pink furryslippers and a tattered bathrobe or dressed for a late night out (orjust coming back from one), no one knows what you look like on theother side of the screen.

Whatever you’re comfortable in is what’s themost important. The only time this point doesn’t apply is with videoconferencing, but them’s the breaks.

*You can also be anywhere, as long as you can get online. Theintroduction of WiFi has made going online possible, and not just froma McDonalds or Starbucks. You can be sitting by a swimming pool, on atour of Paris or even just at the Laundromat…just don’t do something extreme like stunt parachuting or any other form of X-sport.

*You can take the course at any time. Whether it’s just home from work,first thing in the morning, after watching Jay Leno (whatever time he’son). As long as you keep up with the syllabus, you can take your courseat any given time of the day (or night).

*You can seriously cut commuting time and cost. Going to a campus tocontinue one’s education has costs some don’t think about…until thenext traffic jam. A student has to be in a classroom away from theirhomes to graduate.

That doesn’t factor in the time to get from work orhome to the class, or the cost in gas or bus fare that ensues. This wayone has time to have a decent meal, tuck the kids in, relax a bit--andsave a few bucks—before turning the desk/laptop on.

*Age doesn’t matter. These days education has become an ongoing affair.It could be someone in their late teens trying to finish up their highschool diploma, a middle aged, midlevel executive out to improvehis/her station in life, or a retiree just pursuing a personal field ofinterest. Age is not an issue when it comes to advancing one’seducation.

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Perks of Receiving Your Degree Online!