<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>So I am graduating this semester and applied for grad schools. I do not yet know if I will get accepted to any of my choices with funding. If I don't get funding I will choose to work instead of grad school.</p>
<p>I have been contacted by a company that I've always wanted to work for. However, they want to know if I want to be considered for an internship during the summer or for full-time employment (if I get into grad school with funding I want to do the internship during the summer). However, since I don't know my application results yet I don't know what to tell them.</p>
<p>What do you recommend? Should I just ask to be considered for an internship (because interns generally get hired for full-time employment).</p>
<p>full-time always, u can always resign whenever u want</p>
<p>If possible, assuming you get into grad school, have you considered working and going to school part time?</p>
<p>Thanks for the replys guys.</p>
<p>BEngineer,</p>
<p>The problem is that if I get into grad school I would like to keep my ties with the company and perhaps work there after graduation from graduate school and intern while I am finishing my degree. I think getting hired full-time and quickly leaving wouldn’t look good.</p>
<p>JonJon,</p>
<p>I most likely will not be able to do grad school and part time work at the same time (at least not at this company) because the schools I applied to are not located near any of this company’s locations. If I do get into grad school, I wanted to intern at this company during the summers.</p>
<p>Grad school is an environment where you pay an organization to teach you. They may also provide funding which usually involves you working your tail off for enough money to exist. The job market is relatively difficult if you have never had a full-time professional job. Once you get the first one, it’s a lot easier to get the second (you may get annoyed at recruiters calling you after a year at a job).</p>
<p>You can always go to graduate school. You are a customer there. With work, you’ll be able to build up savings, and your employer might even pick up the tab so that you can go to graduate school part time. BTW, son had the same decision although he was already accepted. He dropped two courses and is going part-time and should finish at the end of the year.</p>
<p>I’ve told him this over and over and over again: you can always go to school. You can’t always find a job. I told him that if someone wanted to hire him for a good position while he was in undergrad - that he should go for it.</p>
<p>Also…</p>
<p>If more companies paid you according to when you obtained your M.S./M.Eng degree before acquiring experience, then I would be all for getting your graduate degree as early as possible.</p>
<p>But…</p>
<p>Almost all of the time, for a given experienced position requiring a graduate degree:</p>
<p>M.S./M.Eng degree + experience = experience + M.S./M.Eng degree</p>
<p>So getting your M.S./M.Eng degree AFTER 8 years of experience is the same as getting your M.S./M.Eng degree BEFORE 8 years experience.</p>
<p>Most employers do not care. The M.S./M.Eng degree becomes more of a “check the box” thing during interviewing.</p>
<p>Note: I am referring to applying to a potential new employer</p>
<p>Bump.</p>
<p>I should mention that it is probably easier (and more likely) to get a internship offer than a full-time employment offer. And interns generally get full-time employment offers after their internship.</p>