Many years ago, people chose a career and stuck to it. The greatest thrill was to receive a gold watch for many decades of service in the same job for the same boss. These days, things have changed. Most people work in several different careers before retirement, with many people spending time retraining in between. However, it’s not easy to take a year or two off work to retrain in a new career. Most people can’t afford that luxury. That’s where distance learning online comes in. By enrolling in a distance learning course and completing your studies online, you can expand your qualifications or retrain while you are still at work and earning money.

This advance in study flexibility has been made possible by the development of computers and the internet. Today, almost every university offers some distance learning components and options and there are many universities and other tertiary institutions around the world that are completely virtual entities, with all their students working online from home.

In today’s time poor society, online learning is the ideal solution. You can work full time or part time, raise a family, travel and still fit study time into your day. Of course this takes commitment and planning. Studying at home and emailing assignments to tutors involves a level of dedication that some students would find difficult. But many people love the opportunity to study in the comfort of their own home and still have access to tutors and study resources via the internet.

Studying online is accessible and flexible and means that you can up-skill in your current profession or completely retrain in a new profession at your own pace, in your own home and at a reasonable cost. Some people worry that the qualifications gained by distance learning online are less meaningful than the qualifications gained by those who sit in lecture theatres. But this is not so. When you enrol in a distance learning course, you can find out which qualification you will achieve at the end of your study. Very often, it’s exactly the same qualification as the one achieved by students who attended classes.

Studying where and when it suits you has many advantages to the person who is already in work but wants to expand their qualifications. It means you can study in the evenings and at the weekends. If you work part time, you may also have the flexibility to spend the rest of your week completing your distance learning online course. There are many other opportunities for study as well. Some people find they study well on buses and trains. Others enjoy the chance to study while waiting for family members to finish sports or music lessons.

You would be surprised at the time you have available to study, even if you are in full time employment. So there are really no excuses for being in a dead end job. Enrol in a distance learning online course and see the light at the end of that career tunnel.