I have 2 friends that just completed an OT masters last week, believe it or not. I know that for them it will be the perfect career (at least I’m as sure as I can be).
I personally never did a masters because im interested in marketing and business, and I’ve never thought much about business related education unless you’re doing an MBA. Personally, I feel like business is learned through experience, not taught in school. But I digress.
From an economics perspective, I’ve read that your potential salary increases in a beneficial manner up until your Masters. What I mean by that is that you future salary benefits from any amount of education, up to and including a Masters degree. After that, you start to see a downslide with regard to opportunity cost, time and money invested, and eventual payoff.
I believe an average OT salary is about $75000, and compared to that, a $56000 investment doesn’t seem as monstrous. I can’t answer for you whether or not you will like the career, but I don’t think the investment will be a poor one if you decide to do it. You will see the gains for doing so.
My two cents!
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