Will not finishing my MS hurt my employment prospects?
Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 5:18 pm
I completed all of the course work for a Master's of Science program at the same university that I went to for undergrad and I actually did very well grade-wise, #1 out of about 30 students. Thing is, I have grown to absolutely hate the research I am doing, I think my thesis is complete garbage, and one of my committee members recently affirmed my feeling that my statistics are basically meaningless. I finished the coursework in the spring of 2008 and made the mistake (I guess, but it's not like I really had any choice) of taking a full time job, thinking that I was close enough to being done that I wouldn't have any problems.
Anyway, long story short, the process of finishing up and revising has drawn on for way longer than it should have, I thought I would finally be able to defend this quarter, but major issues with my statistics have come up that are going to take forever to fix, and I really feel like I would have to start from scratch to produce something I am happy with. I'm starting law school in the Fall and I don't want to spend all of my free time until then working on a thesis that I don't even think is any good. I really feel like it is not worth my while to finish, I have good professional experience, so it is not like I will have a big hole with nothing between undergrad and law school, but I am a little worried that not finishing will hurt me for post law school employment.
Any input would be appreciated.
Deferring is not an option, I already deferred a year, not to finish my thesis, but because my wife and I had a baby.
Anyway, long story short, the process of finishing up and revising has drawn on for way longer than it should have, I thought I would finally be able to defend this quarter, but major issues with my statistics have come up that are going to take forever to fix, and I really feel like I would have to start from scratch to produce something I am happy with. I'm starting law school in the Fall and I don't want to spend all of my free time until then working on a thesis that I don't even think is any good. I really feel like it is not worth my while to finish, I have good professional experience, so it is not like I will have a big hole with nothing between undergrad and law school, but I am a little worried that not finishing will hurt me for post law school employment.
Any input would be appreciated.
Deferring is not an option, I already deferred a year, not to finish my thesis, but because my wife and I had a baby.