After spending two years in the corporate headquarters for a major retailer, it became clear that I needed to make efforts to set myself apart from all of the other hard-working people in our office. I decided to evaluate my options to continue my education. I determined that in order to take control of the direction my career was going, I would need to take it to the next step and work towards earning another …showed first 75 words of 467 total…

…showed last 75 words of 467 total…point; go back to school to pursue a Masters degree and keep working hard. It turned out that he had just finished up his MBA a few months after I started working there. Although earning a degree does not guarantee any success in the workforce, it is a tool that one can use to leverage themselves into a better position. I am pursuing a masters degree for two primary reasons: career development, and personal growth.