accreditation and me.

I feel so stupid because i chose to finish my degree online. It's as if every employeer and people who went to traditional colleges is laughing at me, or at least silently feeling bad for me. I think that I had a great potential to be successful in life but now because I am going to have an undergraduate degree form an online institution I don't have any chance to succeed.

When some one buys a new Kia or something and is so proud of it, I'm to nice to tell them that it's a crapy car. That is how I feel about my degree. I was so happy about finally finishing a bachelors degree I ignored reason and didn't research it. In my own defense I didn't have a choice. I had no job and was slowly maxing out my credit limit. One two separate occasions I had to drop out of classes at Weber State because my work schedule changed. I wasn't about to continue on with traditional classes when I knew it was very likely that I'd have to drop them as soon as I found a new job. I was just going to wait to finish school until my life had some consistency but them my brother found Ashford University (for-profit) and I talked to them and decided it was better to finish online then to not finish (or finish years from now).

Now that I have two months until I graduate I began looking at what to do next, continue to Masters, start a new career, get another bachelors in a specific field or a combination there of. I couldn't help but notice that there was a huge difference in requirements for MBA'a from ashford and weber. After doing some research I found that there is an accreditation for MBA's that is absolutely important. If your MBA program doesn't not have this accreditation then it is almost useless. At Asford and other MBA programs with out this accreditation you will get a masters level ACADEMIC education in business administration. At weber and other schools with this accreditation you will learn to actually administer to a business. The difference is that one is academic and the other is functional. I refuse to go into an interview and have the interviewer find out i don't have this accreditation and mealy finish the interview out of pity when he knows that he'll never hire me regardless of how good a fit I may be.

The issue now is how can I salvage my academic career. Should I get into the MBA program at weber it costs. about $4000 more (small price to pay for a much more valuable degree), the real issue with that is that i'll have to pull extra hours in the day out of a magical hat to go and sit in class and do homework. My marriage is already suffering because lack of time to spend together. I may have the option to work the weekend shift and that maybe the facilitating factor to make this MBA happen but is that really what I want?

I could join the Air Force or Navy (maybe even as an officer depending on what the need). I could probably finish an MBA or other degree by the time I finish my 4-6 years in. bye.