I agree with you completely. It won’t make his resume look any better. Employers will note the MBA and skim over the refresher courses.

I would understand him if he went to the courses AFTER work and paid CASH. Other than that….sounds like he’ll be qualified for another private student loan and an excuse to say he’s in school.
.-= Duddes02´s last blog ..Student Loans and such =-.

He’s taking.. a refresher MBA course that is going to take him (supposedly) a year to finish, and spending money that he cannot afford to pay for it.

Not only that, employers in the IT industry don’t care about your MBA. They don’t freaking give a crap if you have a PhD, they only care that you have the right certifications, and he doesn’t.

He needs to pick up a PMP (Project Management) certification and another IT certification, because it seems to be his bottleneck in getting jobs

Some years ago, I had a student at the Great Desert University. She was a nice lady who had grabbed her bootlaces and was hauling herself out of poverty. But that said, she could barely compose a literate sentence.

After she finished her bachelor's degree at GDU, she got a master's and a (heh!) "doctorate" through one of those online diploma mills, this one based in England. To give you a clue, they accepted "life experience" and her tourist trip to Africa for course credit.

This lady, who is still barely literate, is teaching ENGLISH at a community college here! Those jobs start at around $60,000 and go up to around 80 grand. Administrators in the community colleges can easily make six-figure incomes.

And a coworker at GDU, one of the laziest women I've ever met, got herself an Ed.D. in higher education through an online program. This one took a little longer and at least was run through a state university–though believe me, just because a state school is offering one of these programs doesn't mean it's not fraudulent–and then stepped out of her lower-level scutwork job into a nicely paid administrative position.

Few employers pay the slightest attention to where your degree came from or to what its quality might be. All they want is the credential that says you have something that looks like a master's or a doctorate.

Now I have to say about my former student, she was not stupid about money. She had a great deal of practical street smarts, and she also observed the psychology and workings of academia and played them to her advantage. But an English teacher? Lordie!

But he thinks he knows better.. so .. We can’t force him to do anything.

Formal education can be a great thing, but it's not so great when you don't know what the heck you want out of life. My former classmate has been all over the place since we graduated from high school. Even if you have enough sense not to go into debt for education, you should still be pretty sure about what you spend your time and money pursuing.

At times, it's appropriate to follow the advice "don't just do something, stand there."

good luck with that one (you'll need it).