MS in PR?
I (26f) am considering going back to school for at the very least a certificate, if not my masters in public relations.
For context, I graduated with a BA in Telecommunications - Video Production in 2022 and was extremely lucky to find a job in my field immediately post grad. I have 3 years past experience in local broadcast/creative services, and 1 year and some change in my current role at a moderately successful, but niche, media network.
What has sparked my interest in going back to school is that I recently received a promotion and the role I now work is not even remotely what it was initially pitched to me as. It’s adjacent-ish to my skills and parts of the role I had already been doing, but with the title change (that I had no choice other than to accept) came a lot of administrative work and I am much better as a creative.
I’m not great at the email tag/spreadsheet management/data analysis/agenda building side of things. I’m a campaign building, producing, execution (and sometimes crisis-control) minded individual.
I’ll spare the details because every workplace has flaws, but in my case I’m afraid i’ve been set up to fail. I want to be able to fall back on something tangible if they decide I’m not good enough at a role they made up without really taking into account my skills and past experience.
Is school a good safety net? Should I look for a new job? I love the place that I work for everything other than the work that i’m now expected to be doing (plus it looks preeeetty good on a resume) I want to stay in digital media… I’m just lost on next steps.