Financial Planning Student Finds Balance with UGA Online Learning

Joseph Paoletti, online Master of Financial Planning student, has found a fit in online learning at UGA. After earning his undergraduate degree, he planned on getting his masters degree one day, but was not able to go back after going to work. That was until he found UGA Online Learning. It was essential for him to maintain his full time job as a Financial Advisor at an investment firm while earning his masters degree, so UGA’s online program was the best option. Paoletti said that “Once I saw the financial planning program, it was the  kind of program I had always been looking for. Everything just kind of fell into place.”

Paoletti has been impressed with the faculty he has taken classes with so far.  He said that “The professors do a good job at a reasonable pace. They focus one week on one subject, just like being in a classroom.” The case studies where students work closely with professors have been a favorite of his. He also appreciates the flexibility that allows him the ability to take classes on week nights and weekends in his home in the company of his two dogs.

When he is not working or studying, Paoletti is an animal advocate. He does a lot of animal welfare work in his community including being on the board of the local non profit Humane Society. Through the Humane Society he provides direction and volunteer participation to their animal foster program, which helps “get 10-20 animals adopted per week”.  He does the same with the Humane Society’s TNR program, that protects feral cat colonies and with their Moody Guardian Angel Program, which helps a local air force base through fostering military pets of soldiers while they are on deployment. He also helps oversee a low cost spay neuter voucher program through the Humane Society.