AZ Trainee Education recommendation

[KYLECODY]

I would recommend trying to find a master's degree program that has the qualify education requirements integrated in the program. I believe Texas a&m had one and perhaps other universities. If the appraisal career path doesn't work out for you at least you would have a master's degree in real estate.

 

[RCA]

I would recommend trying to find a master's degree program that has the qualify education requirements integrated in the program. I believe Texas a&m had one and perhaps other universities. If the appraisal career path doesn't work out for you at least you would have a master's degree in real estate.

Yes, that is the best solution if you can afford it and are pretty sure you want to go into real estate. If you take plenty of CS and Math courses, you won't have any problem working in many other professions, if you change your mind.

I always figured that a BS/BA in Math with some applied courses in business (e.g. Accounting, Economics), Statistics and CS is the best degree for going out and getting a good paying job, when you are not sure what you want to get into. That's what I did. My first year working was teaching math at a Gymnasium in the Black Forest in Germany for one year, then I went to Frankfurt and started working as an International Accountant (Westinghouse, New England Nuclear, NEC Electronics) for another 5+ years, then hopped back to the Silicon Valley to teach CS for a year, then started working at AMD as a Sr. Programmer Analyst (COBOL), then got into C++ and did that for the next 5 years at Integral Systems, next 6 at the startup Red Pepper Software (which was bought out by Peoplesoft which was in turn bought out by Oracle), then a startup called CacheFlow (which was bought out by Blue Coat Systems), .. then 6 years appraising, then back in to software engineering (ATP,Gap,Mellon Capital, McKesson,Apple, Tesla, Wells Fargo). And now in semi-retired status back into Appraisal w/Software Engineering and Statistics. That's so far 2021-1965=56 years of work experience, as I forgot to state that when I started college at the UO, I started working at the Computer Center right-away through the then so-called work-study program - and that turned into programming for the Museum of Natural History, and I published a paper in my softmore year "Refinements in Computerized Seriation" -- which is still out on the internet.

- And I of course know a lot of f***ing sh** after all these years.