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Just graduated with my bachelors degree in Criminal Justice, contemplating if i should go to Grad school?
My main goal is to go Federal, with an agency like U.S Marshals, ICE, ATF just to name a few but somewhere along those lines. Just with a Bachelors degree it is very difficult to get in a high end agency as such, so that is why I am considering Grad school, the program is Global Security and Intelligence which even opens up more doors to Global, which would allow me to work abroad if I wanted to. BUT, U.S. Border Patrol (Federal Job) is recently hiring now, which should be pretty easy for me to get in with my degree. Once you are in the Federal system, it is pretty easy to transfer from agency to agency within a couple of years, hence allowing me to go to Marshals, ICE or whatever agency I wanted to. Another thing is financial stuff! I have about $20 grand that I have to pay in loans right now! Grad school would be like an additional $10-$15 grand on top of that. Right now im working a full time job earning around $16,000 a year. Should I wait it out and continue my education (year and a half to get graduate degree) considering the opportunities it will offer (Go Global, easy access to high end agency, better pay.. etc) and have to pay around $35,000 in loans??? ORRR should I stick with my Bachelors Degree get into U.S. Border Patrol which starts around $45,000 where I live at, and start to pay my undergraduate loans off and work myself up to get in an agency that I want to?? Consider the negatives and positives.. Thanks a lot for your time and opinions! And I am 21 at the moment if that helps...
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- Everyone has a BA; Go back now, the sooner the better. It will be tough now but the rewards latter in your field of choice will pay off. You will move up the promotion latter quickly. Good luck.
