{"id":283,"date":"2015-08-06T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.forums.geteducated.com\/forums\/uncategorized\/1103-advice-wanted-fastest-way-to-get-a-degree-online-itbusinessnetworkingsecurity-related\/"},"modified":"2015-08-06T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T16:31:00","slug":"1103-advice-wanted-fastest-way-to-get-a-degree-online-itbusinessnetworkingsecurity-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/6-online-bachelor-degree-programs\/1103-advice-wanted-fastest-way-to-get-a-degree-online-itbusinessnetworkingsecurity-related\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast IT Online Bachelor Completion Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone, I would like your advice on the fastest way to get a degree online. Here&#8217;s some background on my reasons for wanting to do this:<\/p>\n<p>About 20 years ago I did a couple of years of Computer Science in college but dropped out without qualifying. In the last couple of decades I have worked my way up to very senior and well-paid roles in Telecoms and Networking. I now work in the Middle East and find that not having a degree is a real impediment when it comes to changing employers. Very often, having a degree is a requirement for the residence visa process and often HR departments will rule out CVs that don&#8217;t include a degree.<\/p>\n<p>So, despite not really needing one to advance my career other than as a &#8220;check-box&#8221; item, I would like to try and earn a degree in a field somewhat related to my current work for example: general business\/IT\/Networking\/Telecoms\/Security.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this does not sound too arrogant, I don&#8217;t think for a minute that I have nothing left to learn but really I don&#8217;t think that having the degree will help me with my work particularly other than in the ways I mentioned. I would really appreciate people&#8217;s input and advice.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone, I would like your advice on the fastest way to get a degree online. Here&#8217;s some background on&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-6-online-bachelor-degree-programs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}