To Learn, Or Not To Learn
 

Well I'm at a crossroads here. I like the company I work for, I love the people I work with. However, I'm stuck here at the receptionist position with little hope of moving to the department I want to move to, which is Human Resources. It is a small, 2 person department here and there's no sign of it expanding in the near future. There isn't another department I'd be interested in moving to. I had previously bounced from one unsastisfying job to another for quite a few years and have finally settled here. I don't want to keep uprooting myself but I am so unsatisfied with what I'm doing. I have already been to college and gotten a BA in Psychology, but HR is the field I'm really interested in. There is an online program at Drexel that I could take if I want to add another $50,000 onto my current student loans. My boyfriend and I are currently living with my mom for a few years to save for a house, so I'm wondering if I'll be able to afford repaying a second loan once I have a mortgage. I'm not looking to you all to give me an answer, because I know you can't. I just needed to vent my frustrations a little. I know I could get a much better job with the HR degree, but that would involve uprooting myself to another company again...which would, in turn, affect my getting a mortgage since they want to see a solid 2 years or more with your current company. I could enroll and start in December if I choose to, I just can't seem to make the decision. I would love to continue working where I am, there just isn't the opportunity I need. :(

How long does the degree take? What they're really looking for is two years in the same line of work, not same company. And your schooling counts for time.

Oh, really? I thought they wanted you at the same company for a certain period of time. That works out much better. It's a 2 year program.