Long Story Short:
I will not be facing the new year with my new certification.
I've griped about this before. Every time I think I'm done, the program says "What? No you're not. There has to be something not in order!" They did it this time last year, which is why I lost my job and my place to live and had to move across the country, boo hoo blah blah blah.
Well, it happened again. I had planned my time and my unemployment budget around being done by now, so I could start job-hunting again in the new year, which I'm still going to have to do, but now I am doing without anything to show for the last three years of work. No institutional recommendation or certification for me! After all that.
In a nutshell, I was told previous experience would count as a credit and then after it was too late, I was told it would NOT count as a credit because I hadn't been under their supervision at the time.
When I sputtered about that, I got told that if they had know that I wanted certification, they could've told me what to do different at the beginning of the course. That was when I had my breakdown, because I sat down with an advisor at the beginning and planned the whole thing over a series of semesters so I could get new certification by the time the old one expired. I was in the certification program! Why in the world would they have thought I didn't want to be certified??
Anyway, we're moving on to Plan C now. I'm out of gifs for the moment, so I'll leave it at that.
I've griped about this before. Every time I think I'm done, the program says "What? No you're not. There has to be something not in order!" They did it this time last year, which is why I lost my job and my place to live and had to move across the country, boo hoo blah blah blah.
Well, it happened again. I had planned my time and my unemployment budget around being done by now, so I could start job-hunting again in the new year, which I'm still going to have to do, but now I am doing without anything to show for the last three years of work. No institutional recommendation or certification for me! After all that.
In a nutshell, I was told previous experience would count as a credit and then after it was too late, I was told it would NOT count as a credit because I hadn't been under their supervision at the time.
When I sputtered about that, I got told that if they had know that I wanted certification, they could've told me what to do different at the beginning of the course. That was when I had my breakdown, because I sat down with an advisor at the beginning and planned the whole thing over a series of semesters so I could get new certification by the time the old one expired. I was in the certification program! Why in the world would they have thought I didn't want to be certified??
Anyway, we're moving on to Plan C now. I'm out of gifs for the moment, so I'll leave it at that.