Any degree you get is worthless, Having a a certification on anything is worthless without applying it. Stop listening to all this hate talk about “worthless” degrees no degree is worthless if that is your passion. When you love your career and look forward to waking up every morning it is a thousand times more worth than a miserable job where you are at because of the money. Being rich and wealthy is doing what you love and being happy and knowing that you are doing what you are most passionate about. If you want to get a CJ degree, then do it and become the best at it. Either way we need people who can change police work, and remember don’t listen to people that put you down. they are probably mad cause life is not turning out the way they want it to be for them
I have a CJ degree. I found it to be good preparation for law school, but I ended up hating law school. I worked as a paralegal for several years (not in criminal law and no certificate required), but later got a job with the federal government in the same legal field. Most of my colleagues are lawyers but a JD is not required for the position. My degree was not useless.
It looks like the OP studied cog sci at UCLA. There’s no telling whether he’s crackin’ skulls or pickin’ brains with the FBI by now.