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Hi all!
I have a situation..and I'd really love help with it! So, any tips will be greatly appreciated!
I want to go back to school in the fall. I am working with my state counselor and everything like that..but I'd really like some advice here.
First of all, I really don't feel lead to go to school for a full 4 years..I just want something where I can go, learn what I'm interested in and be done with it.
My first choice is I'd like to go for massage therapy. I'm just worried about doing this and not being able to do anything with this skill but I really do feel called to do it. Massage has always been a natural gift for me.
My second choice is childcare or doing something with taking care of small kids. I know I can do this job, however I do worry about the vision things; I'm totally blind and I don't know if anyone would hire me even though I'd have the skills to do the job.
I want to do something in the medical field or in the healthcare field..(basically the same thing I know..), but I don't think I'd be happy with my life if I had to spend the majority of it behind a desk.
I'm trying to be realistic..If I had my way I'd be a nurse and go to nursing school.
Any advice, tips or suggestions would be great!
Thank you for reading this post I know it's a long one!
I would look into any types of career colleges. they specialize in getting you certified in the career field you're looking for and have you working in as little time as possible. this means you're not usually required to take any classes except those that are directly relevant to your field of study. I'm looking into a massage therapy program here where I live in Jacksonville right now, as a matter of fact. it's only an 8-month program, you only have to study massage related subjects, and most of the training is hands on, anyway. Best of all, you work a certain number of hours in an actual clinic, so if you're looking to work for someone else, those clinic hours will look great on a resume as experience. Also, the college will help you find work. Of course, they can't guarantee you'll be successful, but they'll do their best.
I'm in the same boat. I don't have the time or patience to go through a four-year program that may or may not result in employment. These career colleges are short and sweet, and they usually cost less because you're ultimately doing less work to achieve similar goals.
thanks Ocean for your support and sharing..I really do appreciate it. It's nice to know I'm not alone..
when you say medical field, do you just mean nursing or are you also considering medicine
oh and also, if you want to do something with children, you could always look into early childhood education.
I am a massage therapist. It is a very rewarding career and I love it. Do a lot of research of the subject, most massage therapy classes are very intense. There is alot of studying and the Anatomy class is very hard but it can be done, I am proof of that.Make sure the you ask for a reader for test taking, all your notes are emailed to you and the list goes on. I will be glad to help you if this is what you choose to do.
Colleen
hmm....., probably child development or early child psych if you want to do children stuff. I actually think a 4 year college is better but that's just me I am a bit old fashioned like that and there's no easy answer so you most likely have to work for it.
I totally agree with working hard..I respect your thoughts Rachel92 but a 4 year college isn't for everyone..I've tried it though so I do have some experience with it.
No, Of course it is not for everyone. Neither is a good payed job or a good life.
The question is do you want success and how much? Do you wish to get a full and good education? You might not like it and it might not bbe fun, but some parts of life is necessary despite how boring and uninteresting it is for you. If it's physically and mentally impossible such as being to taxing and too difficult then maybe it is better to find a different course if it's not possible to work with the best option. If you have no other disabilities than blindness maybe it is workable, it is for most blind students who puts forth an effort. there's also other circumstances that a four year college is not the place for you in instances of training that would require too much hands on work such as being in the military, no four year college can teach those skills to you or being an auto mechanic. but if there's a course in a four year school for your professsion, in my opinion, I do think it is the best option to take that course because a lot more people recognize it and hold it more highly. A college certificate especially one from a widely known school for excelence can really influence how people look at resumes and the applicants who submit them. those tend to be the folks with the higher pay and the better jobs. If you want to sacrifice those maybe a training career focused school might do for you. I don't really have much for those schools myself, as I tend to be traditional here too. So, certainly it is not for everyone and not all should attend but it should be one of the first options to be evaluated and attempted. Most should atempt it and not say it's for or not for them. The interesting and uninteresting or bored or fun factors should not really factor in to the consideration. life is not always that way so you must learn to deal with it rather then evade it. However, I think if you wish to go in to something like psychology and specialize in child psychology or child development or early life education it is probably best to purseu those at a four year school and then attempt your masters degree as most in the psychology field requires a masters or doctoral degree. that's the way I'd go if I wanted employment in that field, and it is probably one of the best ways to do it.
Rachel, what makes it 'for' or 'not for' someone, has everything to do with what it is they are working to achieve. No company cares if you are old-fashioned or not, what ideology you support or don't support. The truth is companies are not lining up at colleges recruiting students just because they graduated college. They haven't done that since the 70s if not before. Companies aren't looking for volunteer work, good deeds in the community. Companies are machines: nothing more, nothing less. All they are looking for is a bottom line and a quota. All potential cogs in those machines are looking for is a place to get connected and have the means to pay the ubiquitous bills. Colleges are more expensive with student loans having interest rates that rival credit cards. Go to a 4-year, I say, if you have your eye on a particular ball, you know you're not gonna change, and that when you get out, you're in a field where there is a market for the degree you just earned. If you're going to law school, or medical school, ror some simlar profession where all of this matters, you are obviously doing yourself and those financing you a favor doing a 4-year stint.
Truthfully? Most of academia comes at a high price out of reach of middle-class Americans, and is noncompetitive, in that it isn't generating results markets will purchase (in the form of new hires at companies). Internships don't count: That is tax-dedductible work for free and you'd have to be a moron as a CEO not to get on that particular gravy train.