Well, I've managed to piss away almost 5 months of unemployment (has it really been that long?). I've had to take a long, hard inventory of my skills and viability as a contributing member of of the working class:
Highschool diploma: Check.
College education: Nope.
Office, clerical or computer skills: Nope.
Solid employment history: Not of you include having had 40+ jobs in 20+ years. Sigh- very sad.
Team player: Uh- no.
Works well with others? Definately not.
So what's a kid to do?
Get a degree.
Might as well use the last of my unemployment to better myself. I see a "career counselor" tomorrow to decide which term and classes I need to take. My unofficial major: Art (duh!). My minor: Business Administration. I've already taken my admissions tests (math, reading and english), been through "orientation" and registered as a new student. Come June I might be a real student... Again.
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Good luck with that, Miles. The business admin sounds like a good solid minor. Even if all you do is learn some clerical/computer skills, it should put you in good stead. I did secretarial work for a lot of years...without any courses or degrees in it, but often wish I had. Now being out of the work force for so long, I feel what skills I had are mightily outdated - would have to get some training for sure.
that's excellent news Miles, and yes it's important to have the clerical/computer skills, so hang in there. Some days will be interesting, some will be dead boring but on the whole it should be just fine. K.
Good for you, I found school as an adult to be a much more rewarding experience than when I was younger. Figure out what you want, then go for it! All your life experience will put you heads and shoulders above the youngsters.
Miles, what a great idea! Like Beverly, I found school to be a much richer and more rewarding experience when I chose it as an adult. Have fun!
As was posted earlier- I'm already looking around myself and asking, "Where did all these children come from?" For that matter, "When did I get so damn old?!"
I'm sitting here a-waitin' for the school advisor to talk to me (and laugh).
Thanks for all the well-wishes. I think tis is gonna be an interesting journey.
Congrats on enrolling in college. I plan to do that very very soon. I just need to hurry up and get my GED (I'm still in high school) out of the way. So...when you're officially in...tell me about it. Like...rate the overall difficulty.
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