Making it Work: Having a Job and Pursuing a Degree
Fabiana Perera talks broadly about work and graduate school. Obviously you should work after graduate school, but is it helpful to work before? during? how do you make work and school "work"?
She got an MA (after working) and a PhD (while working) and now teaches college and graduate students (while working) . The crazy thing about experience is that after you get it, it's often not as useful to you any more.