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  Fast life experience Masters degrees online: An intelligent career move or a waste of money?For some people interested in boosting their resume, a life experience Master degree seems to be an attractive option. Pay your money, get your master's degree, they verify you earned your degree if an employer calls- why not? After all, it says it's an "accredited life experience university".But of course, any business can claim to be an accredited school offering masters degrees. The question is, accredited by who? There are some impressive sounding accreditation boards that are actually just made up fronts. In addition, employers are well aware of the on line life experience degree option, and they aren't necessarily fooled just because someone answered the phone and said "yes he earned his degree." It isn't difficult or time consuming, with the internet, to search and find out just how respected a university is. So there is a real chance your degree won't actually help you move foward in your career. If a short cut seems too good to be true, it probably is... However, there are respected, accredited programs that do allow SOME credit for life experience. After all, 10 years of real, practical business experience is surely worth something compared with an 8 week on-line course. So want a degree that is respected and that will provide the boost you are looking for, do some digging around to find the best school for you, and expect to spend some time working for the degree- which not only gives you the feeling that you earned it, but also hopefully helps you develop more skills. Funny advertising Mistakes from InnocentEnglish.com The name Coca-Cola in China was first rendered as something that when pronounced sounded like Coca-Cola: Ke-kou-ke-la. Unfortunately, the Coke company did not discover until after thousands of signs had been printed that the characters used meant bite the wax tadpole or female horse stuffed with wax, depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 Chinese characters and found a close phonetic equivalent, Ko-kou-ko-le, which can be loosely translated as happiness in the mouth. The Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan finger-lickin' goodcame out in KFC’s first Chinese campaign as eat your fingers off. An American tee-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the Spanish market, promoting the Pope's visit. Instead of the desired I saw the Pope! (el Papa) Thousands of shirts proudly proclaimed in Spanish I saw the Potato! (la Papa). |