Cause and effect
Why Adults over the Age of Thirty Return to School Just when it is time for them to sit back , relax and enjoy life and child rearing , a growing number of people are deciding to go back to school . There are a number of reasons for people to make this choice and as many effects created by these decisions . Some of the reasons for adults to go back to school include the increased availability and flexibility of colleges , boredom or desire for a challenge , jobs require employees to get a higher level of education , and to have more career opportunities . The effects of these decisions on the students include the stress of changing careers , decreased free time due to studying ,family pressures , anxiety over possible failure . As online colleges and community colleges make schedules more readily available to people who work full time day jobs , more people are able to find the time to seek the degree they may have always wanted . Often when people are directly out of high school , life circumstances require them to enter the workforce immediately (essortment . Some people , especially women who have stayed home to raise children find a need to have more of a challenge in life . This is especially true when those children go to school . These women then discover that what they had spent much of their time doing is no longer the same and in order to be successful in the workforce a college degree would be helpful . As required skills for jobs are always changing , people who have been on a job for a long time often find the need to return to get a new degree or education on new advancements in technology for their current job . Other people simply find after a number of years in one career or at one job , that it is unfulfilling and need a change . At this time many people seek out the online colleges , because they are very flexible and offer accelerated learning . One effect of returning to college is the stress of changing careers after...