Taking It To Another Level

Before I planned to get married my original plan was to graduate from university and then move straight onto my masters degree.  Simply put, priorities change.  I don’t regret not going to my masters degree straight away, and in fact things have worked out much better.  In the last few months myself and Amanda have been discussing the possibility of me studying my masters degree part-time as it only requires six hours study per week.  I say “only” in the lightest sense though, six hours when you’re married, working, and spending large amounts of time on personal projects is actually quite a lot of time.  We don’t have kids therefore it’s viable.

So, the news is that I will be starting my masters degree starting this November and the only way I was able to afford this was sponsorship from my company which I’m extremely thankful for.  There’s a lot of inner-educational talks about how much masters really help you so I decided to make sure I carefully studied the topics covered.  For the masters degree in Software Development many of the courses actually relate directly back to my job so it’s beneficial not only for me, but for those whom I work for.

The study works on a modular basis, I will study one module every six months requiring roughly three tutor marked assessments and one exam.  The six hours study is gained back by changing my weekly timetable and stopping certain commitments I have on weekends which will free up enough time for study.  It looks like I’m actually starting with a database development course which is handy as that’s what I tend to work with most days (and nights!).

Anyway, I’m back in Guernsey now after being in Jersey today and I’m having the final, conclusive meeting tomorrow.  Oh also, I’m studying it with the Open University as I have previous experience with them and it works well for overseas support.