It's a solid piece of advice, but my advisor told me that relatively few people who get work experience following college ever go back for their masters. And its definitely believable; once you get entrenched in work habits and lifestyles it becomes difficult to separate yourself from that and make the transition back to school. It took my dad ten years to get his masters after he left school for a while and his was an integrated BS/MS program.
I've decided already that I'm not going to try and work and go to school at the same time (which is usually the principal requirement for companies to pay for tuition). It's just...too much. Full time employment plus graduate studies would put my workload somewhere between 70 and 80 hours of shit a week.
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