What can you do with an Associates of Arts Degree?

Question

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Answer 1

There is another take on this, a wider, modern take. First, there is lots one can do with an Associate Degree. The Associate Degree primes the person and avails added insights because any degree of itself only appends to experience and dimension -- which cannot be taught in schools -- and which again is increasingly true amid all the debacles occurring in every community of industry.

Bear in mind that what is taught in most colleges and academies are doctrines and models of systems that are fastly crumbling, founded centuries ago. We see this failing in the grades K-12 already. Soon we shall see this graphically occurring at the university levels. Schools know the old way, but!, the old is not new again...

Increasingly students who have completed undergraduate degrees are as quickly if quietly returning to community colleges to get updated or new skills or more relevant skill, for now they have shoved the hub-bub and herd instinct of education out of the way and now have room to see more clearly.

At the A.A. or A.S. level, many students -- who are of a much wider range of ages and thus experiences, which is a measure of adaptability and strength itself -- choose to get more than just fundamentals but something added matched with their experience and that fits them to start their own businesses, and who well know that all the littany taught in the universities helps some, true, but only insofar as the ones who are in charge and power are themselves still attached to doing business based upon the old models -- that is, the big corporations -- which I might add again are waning and dissolving, going bankrupt -- this will only increase.

Witness the numerous MBA's and M.A.'s who graduated Stanford, Harvard, Wharton: these are the selfsame ones who championed and supported the callous causes of the likes of Citibank, Merrill-Lynch, Country Wide and more, all of which corporations have now lost scores of billions upon billions of dollars and bankrupted hundreds of thousands of consumers: -- those so-called captains of industry ascribed to the established model of learning, which titles end with MBA, CPA and so on -- yet all is faltering.

The A.A. and A.S. increasingly are tooling a completely new model of device in career and business, a completely new worker -- those who are American-born -- fitted with new visions that create and lead, rather than folllow what is for the most part quite a decrepit model: -- It is not about the degree alone so much as it's most to do with the mindset and point of view of the individuals -- increasingly a world view inclusive of third-world countries with diverse sensibilities and vastly different wants, whose takes on business are not as those taught in the American academies and institutes.

Aside from the ego-gratification of having completed the American-style B.A., B.S., M.A., and so on, as opposed to attaining the Associate Degree level alone, the efficacies on an international scale are no more or less than any others... What you do with your own personal talents and bright ideas and your people skills and initiatives are the best indicators of what an Associate Degree can do; and that's no more than what any degree will do, for so many today are remiss of interests with the fields for which they matriculated at the academies; and technologies have supplanted the old means and assumptions.

The degree as known in "classical" education is no more than a consensual reality, and too often indicates that you simply agreed to agree with what is taught in order to be certified that you agreed!

To the new model, to the newly re-tooled and skilled person, what you focused in and from what school you got your BA or BS degree has increasingly little or no importance, and impresses little or nothing to those who got their knowledge dimensionally, often the rugged way and from schools throughout the world at par or exceeding in quality that of American schools -- thus is there a need for a balance of both pedagogic learning and raw experience and hard knocks -- remove of sole reliance upon precepts in the books.

Answer 2

Many people use the AA degree to fulfill their general education requirements as many universities will accept those credits and apply them towards a Bachelor's degree.
There are probably some lower-management jobs you could get with an AA degree, like McDonald's or whatever, but most of my colleagues use it to transfer to a university for that 4 year degree.

Answer 3

You can go to college for another two years and get a bachelors!

It is not meant as a terminal degree. It is meant as a preparation for an undergraduate degree.

Think about it -- someone could go to a community college for two years, have a C average and get an AA. Someone wlse bight leave Harvard after two years with a straight A average. Which one would you want working for you -- the one with the AA or the college dropout?

Answer 4

Work at Pizza Hut

Answer 5

Sound arguments here.

Answer 6

Really not sure about this one

Answer 7

you could go to massage therapy school instead and be my personal masseuse.

Answer 8

better then what Brandy said... She must work there...