Which is much more significant to you when you are finding a job? Working experience or an advanced-degree? Well, I believe diverse people have different answers. As for me, I will say working experience without hesitate. Here are following reasons:
Above of all, most of jobs don’t require such a high degree which means just some few works, such as, theoretical physics, archaeology, or literature, need high academic qualification. Meanwhile, rich working experience will draw more attention. To illustrate, when you are offering a department manager post, there is a man who has already been a manager for three years but only have a master’s degree and a no-experienced person with doctor’s degree, which one would you choose? Definitely the first one for the manager doesn’t acquire a doctor’s degree if he only supervises a department but rich working experience.
Secondly, plenty experience will bring you success much earlier. For instance, Bill Gates, who was the richest man in the world and also one of the most successful merchant. What a wise choice when he decided to abandon studying so that he can gain more working experience instead of a doctor’s degree. Or Steve Paul Jobs, who discontinue his study at his age of nineteen in order to become a personnel of a computer company just like Bill Gates.
From all of these, we can see that advanced-degree is not so essential as working experience.
However, a degree is still required for most people, maybe you shouldn’t have to gain a advanced or highest degree, but that doesn’t mean nothing, maybe a bachelor’s degree, or graduated from high school, that’s still necessary in this fierce-competition society.
All in all, I think rich working experience is much more important than the advanced-degree.