THE educational landscape nowadays is fast changing. After one finishes a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree, people race toward earning a master’s degree and then a PhD degree.
It is tedious especially if one has immediately jumped into the next level of education after completing another while working for a living at the same time. It is difficult to balance work and study at once when you have to juggle with lots of workloads and piling up requirements to be submitted to your professors.
What then are the reasons why professionals opt to earn a master’s and a PhD degree? Is this only for self-fulfillment to demonstrate success or is it more than that? Let me share with you five other reasons why people choose to get PhD.
It helps you become more competitive and highly in demand.
As one updates his or her study, their ranks become higher. Promotions are easier and one can work full time in an organization while other institutions also hire you for consultation services. This gives one an edge over the others who do not find time to advance themselves. It feels great that you are marketable and that everybody needs your expertise.
Salary increases.
It is true that once one gets a PhD degree, the salary increases. Five to P15,000 a month or higher will be added to your salary grade. One cannot have this abrupt and much increase if one does not do anything to professionally improve his or her status. It is a fact that continuing education will entail one to spend money for tuition fees and requirements, but the benefits one will have is to double or triple their salary once a PhD degree is completed.
Improve in social networking.
Once you are enrolled in a PhD degree, invitations for seminars and conventions in the local and international scenes multiply. One is going to meet new people with higher ranks including experts in his or her fields that are going to help them find other opportunities and become experts themselves in the future.
More knowledgeable in researching.
It is, of course, impossible to fully become a PhD without knowing the research process. One will be able to appreciate how it is to find a researchable topic of your interest, then finding the related literature and studies, the actual data gathering, data analysis, conclusion, and recommendations, the years of dissertation. Oh, it is nice to become one of those who passed their dissertations and later on conduct more researches.
Higher level of confidence.
It is not that people will now call you a “Doctor” even without taking up medicine or dentistry, but it is the confidence that the degree has given to one. Continuing education is essential and it keeps one abreast of new technologies. Experience in continuing education demonstrates one’s patience, interest and drive to succeed. The person who carries with her name a PhD title boozes one’s self-esteem and self-worth.
Oh, even if one already has a stable career and earning a good salary with a better lifestyle, choosing to enroll in PhD does not mean you have plans of changing your fields or options to start from the bottom again.
Remember that in PhD, one can add up specializations and qualifications that can help you become better than you are today. So, do not waste your time, learning is priceless. A person who stops learning is old while anyone that keeps learning is young, let us stay young forever.
As Robert Lee said: “Education of a man is never completed until he dies.”