I have read all of the posts related to this subject. Most all are correct, but no matter what in todays market that piece of paper is the most important. When I made my first comment I understood that the individual who wrote the first post had already started college, of some sort, had worked an outage as a deconner, and was looking at continuing their education relative to Health Physics. If I am wrong, I apologize, but after 42 years in nuclear power and health physics, in all sorts of positions, I am still convinced that if the individual wants to get into Health Physics there are still many options. With an HP degree and willingness to do their time and gain some experience, a person with a Health Physics degree, an advancement to a Masters and Certification, nuclear is still the future, maybe not in commercial or DOE, but in the private sector. I only wish that, like millions of other folks, I would have had the mind set to get an advanced education 42 years ago, or at least during those 42 years instead of working my a__ off for peanuts as a tech. Don't get me wrong, I love the industry and would not trade my experiences and collegues for anything else but mistakes are mistakes. We make them we live with them. I hope this person makes the right decision, because life is to short to make the wrong one.