<prompt> Human: So right now I work full time Monday through Friday making 10.65 an hour. I have been with my job 3 years and my last raise was 28 cents you read that right. Which is where this comes from because that was the final straw. So I WAS in school but got wrapped up in work and let school hit the back burner, I realize that was an extremely stupid idea now. so I plan on going back to school so I can leave my dead end job at some point because the only big raise I would have would put me at about 13-15 an hour in a year MAYBE, they keep giving us bullshit answers on the time frame. And management only makes about 40k a year, its retail. So my Main question is how do I know what degrees to look at. I like business, I like my Monday - Friday 7-4 job and would love to someday have my own business or manage a business. It seems that business degrees typically get looked at as a joke degree though, I want to go to college but I also want to make sure my degree will help me and not just be a piece of paper I have. I was in school for nursing before but life happens and now I have a little one and I think nursing would take up most of my time with always working. I guess what Im getting at is, how do I push past the bullshit degrees and get a degree that will help me instead of make my bills worse.  <response>: I guess what Im getting at is, how do I push past the bullshit degrees and get a degree that will help me instead of make my bills worse.You might be thinking about career planning in the wrong order. What I would do is go figure out what you want to do and get very specific about it. Then I would do a ton of research into what it takes to get into that career. Go find numerous job postings for positions you want and pay attention to both the minimum experiencedegree requirements and ideal experiencedegree requirements. If you can find open positions at smallmedium businesses in the area like, a few dozen employees would be great... maybe a few hundred: see if you can get a 5-10 minute conversation with the hiring managers to talk about the position. Let them know that you dont think youre qualified currently, but you are doing research into your own career development and would like to pick their brain about what they are actually looking for so that you can come up with a plan to build that experience and education.Then, I would center my degree planning around the most common themes you find when hunting for your future jobcareer. This probably also involves a short term job change - if you find out business management things dont give a damn about your retail experience, you should go find something that is at least tangentially related that will matter for your goals. 