Initially, as a tentative thesis project, I was working towards developing a chatbot to pair with the online curriculum that would be my final project in my O.W.I. certification practicum. When I was being advised last fall, I was told that 6 of my remaining 9 hours in the spring would be devoted to preparing and presenting my thesis project. This schedule meant that I was going to graduate without knowing how to write a grant which was one of my main goals when entering the program. I decided that I would be better prepared upon graduation for an uncertain job market with more professional and business writing experience so I switched to the portfolio option with the addition of Grant Writing, Writing for Business and Government, and Writing Software Documentation to my transcript. These additional hours allowed me to practice and improve my professional writing skills in the very likely event that decent positions in education were unavailable. I believe that I have substantially improved both my writing and editing skills and expanded my career options with this decision to shift to the portfolio option and stay in the program for an extra semester.