After Ten Years of Self-Employment, Entrepreneur Ana Said Decided To Earn Her Bachelor’s Online to Grow Her Career

Meet Ana Said. She’s an entrepreneur who built and operated her own business for almost a decade. She achieved her success through hard work and a willingness to learn on the job. This commitment to learning new skills was particularly important, given that she’d launched her business before earning a bachelor’s degree.

Despite her achievements, she eventually reached a point where she felt she couldn’t advance her career any further. She began to wonder whether earning a degree might now make sense for her goals. She credits her mom, an e-learning specialist, for her exposure to the possibilities of online learning. Ana’s experience of helping her mom in video and design for online classes sparked her curiosity in online learning and would mark the start of her freelance career. Below, Ana shares her story about her decision to enroll in a bachelor’s program, how her new community is helping her overcome challenges associated with having an education gap on her resume, and what surprised her most about learning online.