Continuing Education

Currently I am returning to school to finish up a Bachelor of Science degree.  The reason I am doing this is to compliment my years of experience in the Technology arena for the Land Surveying and Engineering industries and an Associate Degree in Computer Technology.  While doing my studies, I have often felt that I should have been doing these educational things all along.  I have found that just by being around other people "learning", that it sparks a huge amount of extra thought and research that often leads to great new ideas or process refinement that helps whatever situation I find myself in at the time.  Imagine the benefit an employer could get from encouraging their employees to step outside the "box" and take on some more education.

Looking back through my work history, education was never pushed or encouraged.  Yes, mentions of education tuition/costs reimbursement were thrown out periodically; however, no real encouragement has ever been given towards additional education in a particular field of work.  This has been extremely short-sighted by ALL the employers that I have worked for in the past.  Furthering education of employees is two-fold.  First, showing employees that you actually want them to learn more about their particular field instills in the employee that his/her employer actually cares about them.  Secondly, you as an employer, will always have employees that are on the cutting edge of new ideas and concepts that can usually help improve business processes and increase profits.  In the end, everyone involved wins.  Employees are appreciative of an employer providing means to better themselves and the employer has happy employees that are up-to-date with training and new concepts.

Education is an investment, either in yourself or in someone else.  Keep this in mind going through your career and it will benefit you greatly!