I joined the Army when I was 21, I'm 36 now and have 3.5 years left until I can retire. Looking back, I don't regret any of my time served, but I honestly wish that I had finished college and found a different career path. I've lost several friends along the way, several ruined relationships and a pretty good hatred for our government now after a few deployments. I know this sounds funny because I don't regret one minute of serving my country but sometimes I wish I could rewind time and start over.
Math is the only subject that is not open to interpolation. It is simplistic and nonresistant, thats what makes it great. If taught right it can be challenging yet very rewarding and the lack of it todays class room is why we are not producing engineers and scientist at a rate to supply the demand todays market demands.
Thats true. English you can get by on but math if you dont get why one little thing works you are screwed Thanks man. How many hours is it for paramedic school is it? i heard its a lot . Im also looking into getting at least my first responder training so its another thing i have done as far as schooling and let people hiring know i trained in that area as well.
Skip first responder. Do it right. Get your EMT (130-200 hours), your A&P (130 hours) and Paramedic (roughly 1000 hours). It will take you almost 2 years but then you will be nationally registered and able to get a job anywhere in the US.
I have as best I can remember around 165 semester hours of college. I have no degree. LOL I attended full and part time 2 4 year schools and picked up an additional 21 hours at a community college. I just couldn't make up my mind. I started in music, switched to elementary education, got drafted when I took a semester off to pay my way. Then I took up business while in Texas... and finally computer science classes 40 years later in Maryland just to know how it all worked. LOL I'm the most educated/UNeducated person I know. Somewhere along the way I ended up owning a business and retiring at 58. Go figure. Doesn't seem possible I quit working 10 years agos. I no longer desire to get a degree. LOL
School is for the birds. Kidding. Totally kidding. I've tried a couple of different schools several different times, but it's just not for me. Not right now. I want to go back to school and get a degree of some sort before I am 30, just not sure what.
Take it from an expert .... the longer you put it off... the less likely it'll happen. In my case life worked out just fine... but I'm probably one of the exceptions. I just got lucky and worked like a dog for a few years. The last 8 years I was in business was a cake walk. Then this Korean came along with a bag full of money and I quit. LOL Only in America.
That's what everyone tells me, but I'm not sure if it's pride, arrogance, or a combination of both, but I just don't think that will be the case for me. If and when I went back to school I would do it from home, online. Right now I don't have the discipline to take classes and succeed doing it from home. As I get older and I tighten down on myself, then I don't think I'll have any problem taking my time and getting a degree online. If I were going to do it, I'd want to do it right, and I don't see that happening right now. But I'm like you, and many other folks, in that I'd rather invest myself in and work hard in something than go to school when the time's not right.
yeah school isnt really my thing either but i figured hey i can get through 2 years and then im done. After that its trying to find a job and figuring out where i want to live for awhile.
3 semesters of class and a year of rotations and ill have my doctorate of pharmacy. Crazy to think I am halfway through graduate school already.... Then ill have a year of residency somewhere out west and on to anchorage to start my career finally. Currently looking into working through the medical corp, specifically the IHS but given the instability of the government and their healthcare plan...no plans are concrete for the foreseeable future.
OK... I'm going to say it ONE More time ...... the longer you put it off... the less likely it will come to pass... PERIOD... END OF QUOTE. On line school is NOT a college degree. That is the last lecture you'll get from me. The degree doesn't matter, busness or whatever. Hopefully something useful... but you don't have to do it for the rest of your life. I am not a model of what to do... unless you are really a go getter on your own... but you have to have some money or backing to begin with. I took out a small business loan. After 2 years I was fed up with their paperwork and judgemental ways. I wanted to expand... they said no. I borrowed off my paid up house, paid the SBA off and expanded on my own...with no ones help I could have lost it all. 2 years later the same bank that said no to my expansion came to me and ask if they could help me expand further. Honest to God.... I laughed at the guy and reminded him of our meeting 2 years earlier....I told him to get out of my shop. LOL I really didn't want to expand any further but the bank knew I was high on the prospect list for a new shopping center location. I was lucky. Most are not.
I pretty much think that attitude comes with the territory and the job. It's really a common thing I think... You're not alone When I was in Vietnam(2 years) I was a gung ho go get them and kill them all type. My first priority always was... keep my people alive first. Anyway.... you'd think that the newbie, the rookie, the draftee would be the first to say... "I don't need this". But NO... it was usually the 16 or 17 or 12 year career soldier that claimed... I've done enough of this crap.... I need to be in the rear area. That's the way it was. My draftees were great. mY 3 OR 4 Year guys were great. With the proper instructions.... my old guys were great. I only had a couple confrontations of this type. My speel was.... Sgt... you're a paid professional. Consider this the big proficency test. You have to take this test. I personnally hope you pass it. If you fail...we'll play taps. They said... Oh F--- you sir.... I'll do my job. LOL And we had a beer. My biggest regret... I lost my platoon sgt and his crew with 18 years service. He was a step away from being a first Sgt and got vaporized. Very sad day... and he and I had had the talk.
One more semester to go and im outta here! I loved college when i was at hocking tech, but WVU is not the place for me.
My college years were spent next to class valedictorians, supreme court justices sons, the nerds of all nerds (like them just not them inflating the bell curve) and getting the living hell beat out of me on the bell curves.....basically I was nut stomped throughout my college career. But thank goodness I graduated. hahahaha!
