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College???


worth it
  68% (37)
mostly worth it
  25% (14)
not worth it
  0% (0)
I was fine with out it
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RE: College??? - 2/26/2009 5:38:50 AM   
KMsAngel


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Status: offline 		aw, sunshine, i'd have hired you in a heartbeat, and fastracked you into training and a much much different job.

i do recruitment for exactly what you're doing. and i've gotten more than one person who had skills in entirely different area - and none in the area i was looking for, but impressed the hell out of me with a keeness to learn, to absorb anything and everything. one was a male, he has come in leaps and bounds and is getting a decent education that he doesn't have to pay for!

in fact, sunshine, just over a year ago, i was doing exactly what you're doing now. pissed me off too as i'd finished half of my nursing degree and i wasn't impressed the only job i could get was home care.

now, i'm a case manager. what you start off doing, doesn't mean you'll stay doing.

and i found the experience of being a home care worker invaluable in the job i'm doing now, btw

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RE: College??? - 2/26/2009 6:19:06 AM   
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as a military spouse, and by requirements that i meet, i can go to college for free, if i go full time.

if you start out slow at a Community College be prepared to pay for the courses yourself. I earned my second degree as a military spouse and in order for them to cover the tab i was required to attend full time and maintain a GPA of a B-

you might want to check with the college you want to attend to find out what number of credits is considered full time.


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RE: College??? - 2/26/2009 6:49:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yep, they redid the whole thing in '08. i started paper work in '06 while we were in Korea, but we got sent stateside early and then life got in the way. So here we are again with a whole new pile of forms to file.

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RE: College??? - 2/26/2009 6:51:56 AM   
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RE: College??? - 2/26/2009 6:53:24 AM   
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RE: College??? - 2/26/2009 6:59:21 AM   
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ORIGINAL: FelineFae

as a military spouse, and by requirements that i meet, i can go to college for free, if i go full time.
i can already draw. if i go to college, then i will have a paper telling other people that i can draw?


FF..go if you can go for free...yeah I know you have heard it several times, but never fail to take advantage of opportunities when they happen, you never know where they can lead. I am currently taking online courses at the local community college and they are challenging to say the least. While you can already draw, you would be surprised at what an Art Degree entails..not just the history, but different techniques, styles and perhaps even ways to make what you can already do, better. I learned a great deal when I attended art classes. Also consider that what you learn, will not only be useful to you, but perhaps at sometime to your Master as well. We never know what will be useful in the future.

Sunshine, perhaps Adult Education Centers would allow you to use your teaching credentials in English as a Second Language. Most of the centers do not require a teaching certificate for you to teach at them since they are not traditional schools. The pay is a bit different since generally you get a percentage of the class fees instead of a salary but those classes tend to be very popular with people going for citizenship and recent immigrants since they are reasonably priced. One of my sisters in law teaches a class in Photography at one such center as does my Masters father at another, both are using it as a supplement to their regular income..him his social Security, her as an Architectural Model and Rendition Artist. Frankly both are earning more teaching at the Learning Centers these days. Neither has a teaching degree..just the skill and knowledge.

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RE: College??? - 2/26/2009 8:14:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		i graduated from high school in 1983.  i started back into college in 2006.  i took placement testing for english and math when i applied for admission, never took the SAT or the ACT back in high school.  i've managed to keep my average over 3.5  for 5 semesters, so no, it's really not that difficult to hop back in and get to work, i really enjoy it, even though i've had to take finals fom a hospital bed two spring semesters in a row.  thank god for laptops!  a word to the wise, do not automatically apply for student loans, explore all grant funding and apply for every scholarship you qualify for.  i see student loans as a last resort in funding my education.  so far I've been able to attend on grants alone.

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RE: College??? - 2/26/2009 12:11:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		How crummy, Sunshine!  I am/was/am in pretty much the same boat.  I taught EI/LD kids for YEARS but in order to get one of those lucrative contracts in that area, guess what?  ANOTHER year of school, like  a master's wasn't enough!  Other states?  More bushwa.  Now I am a CPA and at least I have more mobility in terms of licensing.  But I am still "overqualified".

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RE: College??? - 2/27/2009 2:14:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think if I were still in high school, I regret not applying myself more often to studies and that I only excelled at certain subjects when I felt I liked the teacher.  If I did not like the teacher, I would have such a block as to not trying hard enough.  Yet, I am 50 years old and would love to be a teacher so I can try to motivate students to be successful.  However, with the economy, this really scares me.  I am still mulling over whether I want to go to get a master's degree as I really enjoyed going back to my local university when I was 38 years old.

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RE: College??? - 2/27/2009 2:27:28 PM   
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Is college worth the time and money?

Depends on your learning method. Some can teach themselves whilst others need things explaining, if you need things explaining then you need to go to college. You don't only go to college to learn, you go there for a bit of paper to say you passed a test in three hours whilst not using your mobile phone. They pretend otherwise, they lie.
 
Is it worth the money? Depends what you go for if it's the bit of paper then you need the best bit of paper but surprisingly the low fee schools are quite good. I hear at Oxford they give you one on one time with no set lectures, the idea being you teach yourself. Personally I've always preferred some kind of structure and that no set lectures thing may be a myth, I heard someone talking about how it was and all I could think at the time; 'what you paid x amount of money and they told you to teach yourself? This is the negative effects of inbreeding.


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RE: College??? - 3/1/2009 9:37:43 AM   
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i would say that going to college was great for me....and well worth it.  i went straight from High School to college because i didn't know any better.  There were no college loans like today.  For the first two years my parents paid by taking loans on their life insurance, the second two and a half years (i transferred schools and lost a few credits) i paid low fees as i went to a State University.  My husband was in the Navy and it was during the Vietnam War.
 
The absolutely most important thing about having my Bachelor's Degree was that all the jobs i had REQUIRED a degree or they wouldn't even look at a resume.  The degree didn't have to be specific to that job, either.  The knowledge and skills you get from the basic courses and the others required for the degree help in ways you can not predict.  I wasn't working as a psychologist, but the psychology classes helped me understand people better and made it easier to motivate people.  The economics classes helped, too.  So did history.
During my working years i was laid off several times and one company went bust but the college degree helped me get the next job each time.
 
Another thing i did was continue to go to school.  Almost my whole working life i took a class in the evening in something.  That way i learned French and Spanish, Art History, British Literature, American Literature, 20th Century History, Child Development, Stage Craft(built sets), Banking courses, and others.  All just one class at a time.
Some of those night school classes were reimbursed by my employer.
 
My advice if you decide to go to school - apply yourself and don't waste your time goofing off.  Be positive about your classes.  MAKE EACH INSTRUCTOR BELIEVE THAT HIS(HERS) COURSE IS YOUR FAVORITE!!!
 
 

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RE: College??? - 3/1/2009 9:43:23 AM   
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i'm feeling a lot better on the matter, and looking forward to maybe learning a whole language in stead of just picking up enough to go grocery shopping. Thank you all

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