Problem with studying marketing
The problem with my studying marketing is while it is all well and good and worthy and even interesting it really gets in the way of my studying those things I’m really curious about, just for hobbies sake.
What I really want to do is a range of the OU’s 10 credit courses - a bit of archaeology, a bit of planetary science and bit of earth science. Instead I’m stuck on a treadmill feeling forced and pressured into learning about marketing.
Then there’s all the other CPD stuff I’m ultimately going to need - managing finance and budgets, managing staff - if I ever make it into management which seems very unlikely at the moment.
One of the other CIM students said something heartening to me today though - he said ‘yeah but just think about the extra salary we’ll get when we’ve finished this diploma and get new jobs on the strength of it!’. He genuinely believed that it was worth it, that it would make a difference to our employability. From experience at my place of work this isn’t true, they encourage you to do the qualification and then ignore any advice you give them based on your new knowledge, so I guess I’d lost sight of the fact that the Professional Diploma in Marketing might be of real value - might actually be worth all the effort. It’s a nice thought that I’m doing it for a reason, and not just because it seemed like a good idea at the time.