Have you been out of school for awhile, and want to get back into it? It really does not matter whether you have been out for a few days (congratulations on graduating), or if you dropped out a decade or so ago. Getting some more schooling can be the ticket to meeting people who can help you get ahead in life, and it can also let you learn valuable skills that will help you to get fatter paychecks. But while everybody knows about getting relevant career skills and networking with great people, not everybody knows about how important it can be to show future potential employers that you are ambitious enough to get your education online. After all, there is definitely a difference between the inertia of being in a real world school, and the ambition of doing it all by yourself.
Consider what it is like in most class rooms. Half of the students there are hung over (no matter what day of the week it is), and the teacher may or may not care all that much about the subject matter at hand. Far too often, especially in the required classes, most of the people in the room are only there physically. And every employer knows that this is the case. After all, many of them also went to college.
Online schooling, on the other hand, is way different from that. You have chosen not only to pay to go to school, but also to get onto your computer and do this thing. You are not being forced to contort your schedule, but your success is entirely contingent upon your willingness to actually do what you have got to do. While you might not be extraordinarily ambitious, the fact that you can consistently do something that nobody is pressuring you to do, in an environment where you could be doing all kinds of more pointless things, says a lot about your work ethic.