quit griping, start learning

Recently, I posted a quick rant about people who hate their jobs, and why I believe that the best thing for them to do is just quit. Obviously, one of the excuses that we will hear is that there are no better jobs out there. Quitting one hopeless job is only going to result in starting over at another hopeless job, unless you manage to pick up some specialized skills in-between. And who has time to learn a new trade? Who has time for college and studying?

Actually, with the advent of distance learning and online degrees, anybody should be able to advance their education and earn a college degree online if they have the determination. Popular online colleges like Capella University offer graduate and undergraduate degrees and multiple certificate programs. In fact, you can chose from 82 different degrees and 16 professional certificates. So nobody can use the excuse that there are no options out there, or that you have to be a business major in order to earn a degree while working. Although Capella is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota they have an active roster of nearly 18,000 students from every state and over fifty different foreign countries. Plus, these online degree programs are not "fly by night" operations with inexperienced professors. In fact, professors from Capella have been known to author books on the subjects that they teach, including works on new academic developments like appreciative coaching.

Even if you're not at all interested in going back to school (even online), the internet is a valuable resource for learning new trades. I taught myself most of what I know about the web by visiting "expert" sources on the web and practicing my code by hand. So I will say it once again - quit complaining and get out of that rut. No amount of money is worth the misery of a meaningless job.