Please Vocationa and Degree course?

A vocational course is usually a short "training" course that will prepare you for one specific job (usually). Both my mom and dad went to vocational school and it took them 12-18 months. You go to a specific technical/vocational school rather than a college or university. (For example, if you want to become an AUTO MECHANIC, you would go to vocational school). A degree course is where you attend a 2-year community or 4-year college/university where you're seeking either an associates degree, bachelors degree, or a master's degree. Associate degrees only take 2 years - and bachelors/masters take 4. What's nice about getting your associate degree is that a lot of it is hands-on training for a "career" (paralegal, huc, jobs that require "career training" but not necessarily 8 years in college). The downside is that even with your associates degree, a lot of these jobs don't pay as well as they might if you had a greater degree. A bachelor's degree isn't really focused on training you for a career, though. Usually, you'll pick one or two "majors" and maybe a "minor" that your education will mostly be about. Your "specialization", if you will. So, for example, if you choose to have a major in "Criminal Justice" - a large portion of your credits will have to be classes that fall under that category. I think a lot of the time you get a more-rounded education & college experience from getting your bachelors - because about half of your classes don't need to have anything to do with your major. So, if your major is "Criminal Justice" (hypothetically), you can still take some poetry, ceramics, English, world language classes, etc. I guess that has a downside, though, too, because you won't ALWAYS be learning about what you want to. I think bachelors degrees pay off more in the long run than any other vocational or associates degree program, but that's just my opinion.