<p>Is anyone else staying in college for 6 years to earn their masters before getting their permanent job?</p>
<p>I want to teach high school....however, with a Master's I would make $5,000 more a year. And now Georgia has changed their payscale to where you start off making what you would if you had been a teacher for 3 years...so thats not a worry of mine anymoe (getting higher on the pay scale vs. starting later and making more...) </p>
<p>How do you plan on doing it? Getting an apartment and a full time job? or....</p>
<p>I'm graduating undergrad in 4 years and then hopefully going to travel and work for a while (year or so, hopefully abroad) before my two/three years for grad school. So I'll be not getting my permanent job for a while, lol. However, I am graduating undergrad when I'm 20 so taking a year off afterwards doesn't set me back any age-wise. In fact, I'll probably still be younger than my grad school peers, so... Grad school is expensive anywhere, so I'm hoping to get a teaching assistantship while I'm working on my masters. FSU department of anthropology offers a stipend and tuition waivers for fellowship and assistantship holders (if I read their website right) so that will help me out tremendously.</p>
<p>yeah...my university (i start as a freshman in june) offers full financial support (room, board, and tuition) for TAing part time</p>
<p>I plan on finishing my undergrad then going to law school. So basically I plan on just taking out loans, working summers, and scholarships.</p>
<p>I graduated last spring, but I stuck around for grad school at the same university. A B.S. in chemistry just makes me a lab-tech if I got a job, rather depressing. </p>
<p>4 years for B.S ... 4 more years for phd. 3 more years to go...</p>
<p>^^^^^ya but think about it...in 3 years you wont have ANYTHING to worry about.</p>
<p>Well... I'm doing my first masters degree concurrently with the Peace Corps right after undergrad, if that counts. Then right after that, I'll get an MPA or MPP (or a combo of both).</p>