Advanced degrees

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Do you possess an advanced degree, and if you do, is it technical or non-technical?

  • No advanced degrees beyoned high school

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Associate's (2-year degree) technical

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Associate's (2-year degree) non-technical

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Bachelor's (4-year degree) technical

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Bachelor's (4-year degree) non-technical

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Master's technical

    Votes: 3 42.9%

  • Master's non-technical

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Doctoral technical

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Doctoral non-technical

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    7
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I have a Bachelor's degree with a major in Sociology. I'm considering signing up for a Master's program in Cybersecurity, but I'm interested in hearing other people's responses and experiences. How has your degree helped you, either through domain knowledge or professionally?

I was training to be a social worker, but the job didn't pay enough to repay my student loans. I found a job in logistics loading boxes on trucks for a Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical company. They had a job opening in the data center, and the warehouse manager spoke to the data center manager and highly recommended me. As a result, I got the job without interviewing for it. I was responsible for business continuity, disaster recovery, hardware repair, help desk, hardware maintenance, reporting, Y2K testing, etc. That was the start of my technical career. I didn't seek it out. It found me.
 
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Gregory Childers said:
I have a Bachelor's degree with a major in Sociology. I'm considering signing up for a Master's program in Cybersecurity, but I'm interested in hearing other people's responses and experiences. How has your degree helped you, either through domain knowledge or professionally?

I was training to be a social worker, but the job needed to pay more to repay my student loans. I found a job in logistics loading boxes on trucks for a Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical company. They had a job opening in the data center, and the warehouse manager spoke to the data center manager and highly recommended me. As a result, I got the job without interviewing for it. I was responsible for business continuity, disaster recovery, hardware repair, help desk, hardware maintenance, reporting, Y2K testing, etc. That was the start of my technical career. I didn't seek it out. It found me.
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Thanks for the post and the poll, Greg!

I started out my career earning a B.S. in Computer Science in 5.5 years. I worked as a programmer for about five years before moving to networking and management. Ten years into networking, I faced a dilemma: I had my CCIE and a bunch of cybersecurity certifications. I couldn't maintain everything. I walked away from networking. It was at that point I sought out a graduate program in cybersecurity. I chose Norwich, which had/has a remote graduate program. When I was there, we had to attend an annual residency on campus for a week to 10 days. I'm unsure if they do that anymore, but it was fantastic. My employer paid 100% and gave me a 1-year assignment to the incident response team. At the time, the degree was in Information Assurance (M.S.I.A.). They now have a cyber program with specialties. I highly recommend it.
 
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