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[Penguin]

Yes, not sure hippified is an actual word but it seems to fit!
Oh well done Penguins mum. I was in my 30s in access of 16 year olds doing English Lit A level. Felt so old! Mind you a bit of life experience makes a difference to the class and debates.I cannot remember what subject the 98 chap did but he was full of enthusiasm to just learn all the time.

Go for it Penguin,  citizens advice is a valuable source for so many people. The right opportunity will come your way when the times are right, even if you need to nudge life a bit. You sound a very close family xx

Thank you Sarah xx
Just googled and hippified is now in the Urban Dictionary,  but is not yet a scrabble word 🤣

[SarahT]

Haha!

I can't believe how young I sound!!!!  There's me thinking I was talking rubbish again, but in fact I am still able to converse with the youth. 

[CLKD]

A friend of ours advocates for all types of situations usually when people don't have any1 to speak up for them.  He supports them in all types of issues, including helping to fill in forms, talking to prisoners B4 release and to patients prior to discharge from Hospital home or into further care.

I was hippified the first time around 

[Penguin]

A friend of ours advocates for all types of situations usually when people don't have any1 to speak up for them.  He supports them in all types of issues, including helping to fill in forms, talking to prisoners B4 release and to patients prior to discharge from Hospital home or into further care.

I was hippified the first time around 

That is exactly what I want to do!

[CLKD]

Morning - is it something done via The Open University or Citizens Advice .......  I wouldn't know where to begin 

[ElkWarning]

To answer your original question, as with any Masters it will open up jobs that require:
Demonstrable knowledge of extensive reading, or the capacity to read and understand non fiction texts
Collection and analysis of data
Ability to summarise complex ideas
Ability to explore and rationalise material outside of ordinary lived experience
Ability to write reports (essays) to deadline
Ability to demonstrate understanding of contingencies
Ability to respond to feedback
Etc, etc

[getting_old]

Whilst it would be an interesting course I think that it would offer limited job opportunities, and personally I'd want to study something that would provide me with a lot of future opportunites with the cost of university these days. I think there should be more encouragement for people to study vocational courses, such as plumbing, as they seem to be in decline yet are so necessary.

[CLKD]

getting_old - I agree!   I think this type of Degree Course is for the person who needs to keep brain and mind occupied at a 'later' age.

Interesting point about "Ability to write reports (essays) to deadline " - I found that once academics/scientists had access to laptops they could no longer plan a document from start to finish.  Years of copy typing from hand-written sheets where the author had to think ahead to avoid costly alterations, especially on 'Calls for Papers' and 'Abstracts' which were allowed a certain number of words and had to be fitted into specific grids ............ 

[Wizardstring]

I had similar issues balancing things during perimenopause and found it really hard to concentrate on work. What helped me was shifting my focus for a bit—random, but I ended up reading about different types of electrician certifications while helping my nephew choose his course. It gave my brain a mini break from constant hormonal thinking and actually helped with the brain fog too. Sometimes distraction works oddly well.

[CLKD]

Do introduce yourself Wizardstring ........... age,  what your periods are up to, which symptoms are bothering you. 

[Wizardstring]

For some students, gaining these skills felt like turning a trade for a career. A cousin of mine took a short course and ended up in a role she never thought possible, working in tech support for a growing company. It opened doors she hadn’t considered before.

[Fuzzwhizzer]

My daughter has just started her Masters degree in music. She freelances as a church organist and studied music and was an organ scholar at Oxford for three years. She would ideally love to carry on to a phd in the academic side of music hopefully to facilitate a job at a school or university setting whilst still playing for services/ recitals etc. I never even used to think about organs until she became an organ scholar in our main city church, now it’s organs organs organs 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Trouble is meno plays up with the other types of organs!

[CLKD]

How does one Research the wide range of music these days in order to be awarded a PhD?

My Mum played the organ from the age of 11 in the Church at N Tuddenham, as well as playing for the School Assembly in the various schools in which she worked. 

Although I had music lessons I can't read music any more  .  I hope that I never lose my sense of hearing. 

What job would I do now?  MayB dog training, there weren't that kind of options in the 1960s. 

[Fuzzwhizzer]

Ooh various research pathways, all sorts of weird and wonderful and sometimes unexpected things. Musicology history of music. I can read music got up to grade 5 piano then started on organ. Didn’t start until my forties though! Haven’t practised much lately and if I don’t I go backwards😩

[Fuzzwhizzer]

Ooh North Tuddenham beautiful went there in the summer to look at the wildflower meadows with the church in the distance. Church wasn’t open as we were hoping to go in for a look and to poke the organ!