Hey everyone,
I left school last fall to take a job at a startup. It was my final year and I had 2 classes left but I ended up failing them in the summer semester and moving onto work anyway. 12 months later I’m dissatisfied with the startup and want to make a transition. I’m wondering if it would be worth it to go back to school for 12 weeks and finish off my degree, while looking for work at the same time. I have a feeling that it would be difficult getting past many HR recruiters without at least a degree under your belt, so that’s one of my principle motivations for going back to school.<p>The ultimate question I’m trying to answer is: Should I forget about the degree entirely and try to get a new job without it, or should I go back to school for 3 months, complete my degree, and then start job hunting once again?<p>Some potentially relevant information:
- School I go to is a top 25
- My GPA is abysmal (1.996). I’ve never put my GPA on my resume and I’ve never been asked about it and I’ve interviewed at companies big and small so I don’t exactly know if this is a “deal breaker.” The issue here is that I would need a 3.0 GPA this final quarter to graduate. Doable but my track record is less than stellar (see GPA). - Already been in school for 5 years…this would be the first quarter of the 6th
- Not the best coder, so this might hurt during code interviews. I plan on prepping for them though, but i’m not immediately good at them, meaning if you tested me on them right now I might not do so hot. Plan is to build out an app or two in the coming
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