When it comes to career switching, you generally need an internship. And full timers are prioritized over part-timers for internships. This wasn’t a problem up until the recent past at least for consulting because they needed a lot of people but now that there’s a bunch of layoffs and massively delayed start dates… I think it’s going to be difficult.
At booth, you have to be invited by a company to interview for an internship. At other schools there’s ways to game the system, but it kind of makes you vulnerable. Again it hasn’t been too bad recently but with the economy situation and tech and consulting layoffs I think it’s a very risky path actually. If you are wanting an internship.
Also, in a way there’s no real point to going part time if you need to do an internship because you really have to quit your job anyway when you do that internship. So it might delay the need to quit your job for like a year or maybe a year and a half but eventually you’re going to have to bite the bullet. But, actually some people recommend that this is a better path? Kind of a try it before you buy it approach I guess.
And I think a lot of people don’t feel that the net work is a strong with a full-time program, where you are putting in a lot of face time with others, and if you are pivoting to a new sector, then you want to have a deeper relationship with people who can introduce you and support you.
I guess the final negative here, not on topic with the career pivot, but in general, there is no substantive financial aid (past $20k unless underrepresented) because you are working and they need to allocate those dollars to people who work with their jobs.
So that’s the dark side of course there’s the upside like having an income. If you’re really really organized and you have a lot of energy and a lot of support it’s probably a good option but if you get stressed out too easily or work a lot of hours it’s probably not a good option.
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20 Dec 2020, 03:12 
