I’ve been having a tough time making a rather important decision about my future education. The whole situation started when I thought about organizing an M.A. program at our school. Organizing the program has the added bonus of making the program free of charge; plus, such an endeavor looks great on a resume. But not long after I thought about that, another school decided to offer a doctoral program. I was truly interested in the this, however there was one little nagging thought in my mind — what if I end up hating administration? Once I’m several thousands of dollars in the hole on a doctorate, I’m certainly going to keep working as an administrator to justify that expense. So, I’ve been going back and forth about what to do for about three months now and driving myself crazy in the process (I hate indecisiveness).
There was another problem as well which involved Aysem, my wife, who still needs to solve her teaching license issues. We found a program for that little problem in Australia, but she needs to go there for a week and take a few online classes. So now we were facing the idea of taking the doctoral program and her trying to do the teaching license program at the same time — definitely not possible. Which brings me back to the original plan — the M.A. in Educational Leadership. This is the final decision on this topic for me, so I need to contact my director and make sure that he will support it next year and then begin finding twenty people willing to do the program. Finding twenty people in Seoul shouldn’t be a big problem, but I guess we will see. Anybody reading this who happens to be interested in earning an M.A. in Educational Leadership, please feel free to contact me for more information about the program.
