Career College Zone

If you are thinking about going back to school, don’t overlook the industries where you already have experience!  Getting education in areas where you already have work experience can be a real career boost, not to mention you can avoid the difficulties of getting started in entry level jobs in a new career.

For example, if you already have experience in commercial construction, or if you have worked on projects before to increase how environmentally friendly a property or business is, you might consider getting LEED certified.  This involves passing a LEED exam offered by the U.S. Green Building Council, or USGBC, and means that you can use the title “LEED Accredited Professional” or “LEED AP” to indicate your qualifications.

Or, let’s say you are a childcare professional with years of experience working in preschool and after school programs.  In the United States these jobs don’t pay very much, but you can make your experience work for you by getting a degree in early childhood education or elementary education.  Then suddenly you’ve got a degree AND the experience you need to move ahead of the entry level jobs, which typically have a lot of competition and are difficult to get into.

What experience do you have that you can turn to your advantage when you get your education?

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If I hear one more person sigh and say, “Well, you know, with this economy. . .”, I’m seriously going to blow my brains out.  My heartbeat doubles in speed daily, my palms sweat whenever I turn on the news.

Things seem to be going okay at work, but who knows when I’ll be forced to clean toilets at Starbucks and be impersonated by Tom Hanks.  At the rate things are spiraling out of control, I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to retire, if I can afford to send my kid off to earn her health science masters where she’ll meet a nice Jewish doctor and live happily ever after.  This economy is costing me grandchildren.

And people are still saying we’ll be fine if only we had some tax cuts.  Bull.  An extra grand in my pocket isn’t going to do anything for me or anyone else in the country.  We need new industries.  Why can’t anyone in Congress realize that?  We need more American products and American people to stimulate this economy.  We need to legalize marijuana, prostitution, and gay marriage once and for all.

“But think of the children!  Think of the children!”  I am.  I am concerned that our children will be living in a third-world country unless we don’t create new sources of cash flow now.  You don’t want your children to smoke pot, sell their bodies, and marry that well-groomed guy from Banana Republic?  Then tell them not to!  The government isn’t raising my child, I am; I’ll be teaching her ethics, and I’ll be fighting my hardest to make sure she can attend the Arizona School of Health Sciences programs.

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