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Jun. 24th, 2007
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Under the current rules, I'm not going to be eligible for retraining funds.
First comes the folks who don't have a GED or HSD -- and yes, there are a few at the plant.
Now most of these few folks in this category have been at the plant for 20+ years.
Seems like that's plenty of time if you wanted to get a GED, doncha' think?
Second are those who DO have a GED -- and that's all they have.
As it happens, I have an AAS.
Oddly enough, while I was in school getting that, I got laid off. SINCE I was already IN school, I couldn't get that covered.
And that was as a single parent, suddenly jobless. As I was on food stamps at the time, I was REQUIRED to take any job offered -- temp, part-time, any shift -- and to leave school if the job would interfere with that. Fortunately, I had been taking morning classes as the plant had me on second shift, and the jobs I was offered were all second shift as well.
Seems like they're rewarding folks who don't want to make a better life for themselves, but there ya go.
If you have a good reason why this isn't the case, and not just "ur so meen!", let me read it, please.
Then there's the bit that Massage Therapy isn't on the "hot list" of careers with a bright and shiny future for some silly reason, so that wouldn't be funded IF I were eligible.
Soooo.....
Apply for financial aid, find sponsors, seek private grants.
I'm gonna do this.
Any ideas how?
Under the current rules, I'm not going to be eligible for retraining funds.
First comes the folks who don't have a GED or HSD -- and yes, there are a few at the plant.
Now most of these few folks in this category have been at the plant for 20+ years.
Seems like that's plenty of time if you wanted to get a GED, doncha' think?
Second are those who DO have a GED -- and that's all they have.
As it happens, I have an AAS.
Oddly enough, while I was in school getting that, I got laid off. SINCE I was already IN school, I couldn't get that covered.
And that was as a single parent, suddenly jobless. As I was on food stamps at the time, I was REQUIRED to take any job offered -- temp, part-time, any shift -- and to leave school if the job would interfere with that. Fortunately, I had been taking morning classes as the plant had me on second shift, and the jobs I was offered were all second shift as well.
Seems like they're rewarding folks who don't want to make a better life for themselves, but there ya go.
If you have a good reason why this isn't the case, and not just "ur so meen!", let me read it, please.
Then there's the bit that Massage Therapy isn't on the "hot list" of careers with a bright and shiny future for some silly reason, so that wouldn't be funded IF I were eligible.
Soooo.....
Apply for financial aid, find sponsors, seek private grants.
I'm gonna do this.
Any ideas how?
Apt-to-do tests
Jun. 24th, 2007 01:11 amcan be more of a problem than a help. If you score pretty consistently across the board, with no real stand-out areas, the interpreter/counselor tells you "Oh, you can do anything you want!"
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But what if you don't know what you want to be when you grow up?
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But what if you don't know what you want to be when you grow up?
