Is a master's degree worth getting nowadays?

In this economy, the need of getting a master's or a doctorate degree has to be strenuously questioned. It cost more to get an advanced degree and there's no guaranteed that the person will get a higher paying job after he or she got that degree, if they get a job at all. In addition, the subjects people are studying for to get those degrees has to be questioned as well. Jobs involving business, finance, and management are a few fields that seem to have less security now. Information technology is the future, as far as people see it.

There is a great deal frustration and tension that arises out of people, epscially those in their 40s and 50s because they spent their lives in fields that used to be abdunant twenty, thirty years ago and those people now have to start all over in new fields and also have to compete for jobs with younger people who have entered into those fields much earlier.

It is a good thing to learn what you want, but that thirst for knowledge was to be tempered with getting the skills that will help you adapt to a changing economy.

Lawyers shut down eatery

A law firm in DC has shut down a hamburger place on Connecticut Avenue yesterday because of the smell of meat being spread in their office. This is the latest situation where a huge rich, powerful entity has crushed a small business. The real irony is that this place was in a street where a number of other restaurants, Indian, Middle Eastern and Italian restaurants. Those places produced aroma, probably stronger ones and that ONE place is shut down. It is a outrage and disgrace to the principles of freedom and small business.