u/bruhthenavy

I have just under 7 years of experience in customer service jobs but none involved real sales, and at the time of applying for jobs I’ll be just about done with my 6-year military contract where I worked repairing circuit cards and fiber optic cables. Tons of leadership experience from supervisory roles.

I’ll also graduate college basically right when I get out of the military with a BA in International Relations, 4 years of Spanish, 2 years of Mandarin Chinese, and a minor in psychology. I have way more GI Bill than I need so this was my fun degree lol

Before I just start spraying my resume at every SDR/BDR job I can find and cold calling hiring managers to convince them that I’ve been doing all this but my real passion is payroll software, I’m wondering if there might be some more specific jobs/industries where my experience might be a real asset. Like jobs where you have to interact with people from a lot of different cultures, or an industry where being a military veteran is a proper leg up rather than being interesting but ultimately irrelevant.

Upfront: I’m paying for it with the GI Bill/military tuition assistance, so everything would be free.

The degree I’m ultimately working on is a bachelor’s in computer information systems, but there are a couple liberal arts degrees at my school that barely have any core requirements, so due to all the transfer credits I already have I could finish them within a couple semesters—before I even get out of the military. I’m thinking about doing that so I have one less hurdle when trying to find my first sales job.

Is it still true though that a lot of entry level jobs that require bachelors degrees don’t care what that degree is in? Even though it’s free, it’s still increasing my workload quite a bit because I’d be taking my CIS major classes alongside it. And the degree isn’t going to give me any sort of specialized technical knowledge or hard skills; it’ll at best add one or two interesting talking points to my resume that make me stand out as unique (but are still ultimately irrelevant to a sales job lol)

I’m thinking about taking this as a session C class to knock out an extra major requirement, but I’m already taking some heavier classes in session A/B. I’m somewhat experienced with coding, HTML, CSS, etc. from lots of dabbling + some CC classes that didn’t transfer lol 🫠 Plus McCarthy’s reviews are stellar. Just don’t want to accidentally overload myself with hours of busy work every day even if it’s not necessarily difficult.

I’m an online student so hearing all the horror stories about ACC 231/241 and ECN 211/212 is freaking me out lol I’m a transfer student, so I don’t have any easy gen eds to take along with them 🫠

I was thinking about taking them at Rio Salado, especially if I can offset my start dates a bit to give myself some breathing room, but I’ve heard really mixed things about their classes so I’m curious if anyone here has taken those specific classes there