I'M DONE! .......now what?
Yes that's right, I'm done with MS Office 2007. I took the tests for PowerPoint and Access today and that wraps it up, nine months' worth of education polished off in under three.
.....which leaves me twiddling my thumbs for four months. D'oh! This is the only downside to sucking up learning at speeds in excess of fast.
The teachers have been discussing what to do with me, because they really can't have me hanging around all bored, I might get into mischief or start scheming to rob banks or battle superstitious criminals in tight clothing (the criminals, not me. No sense in casting pearls before swine.) So they started looking at certificate courses. I've already qualified for the Word Processing certificate, and it turns out I'm one Photoshop course away from qualifying for a Business Computing certificate. Turns out I'm two home-study courses away from an Admin Assistant for Small Business certificate (technically only two, as Access was one of the offered electives, but I want Quickbooks too.) Sooooo they're trying to get me the books for those courses, because having some more certificates on my resume will really help my job prospects.
Certificates have been the bane of my educational existence. I keep getting gypped out of them, for one stupid reason after another. I take the courses, but I can't prove it because I don't have the damned certificates. The most frustrating example was the Secretarial course (what they used to call an Administration Assistant back in the dark ages) at the Career College. I took the courses, at a cost of six grand (double that for today's equivalent value), and near to graduation... the Career College closed its doors. With no warning. And no refunds. And no certificates.
I've been able to work around the high school diploma issue, but the Career College certificate is particularly nasty because, with no certificate and no school, there was absolutely no verification of my claims to have taken all of these courses, and no employer would touch me. Very quickly we discovered that the Career College had been blacklisted throughout all of its target industries, and NO CC student could find work in the fields for which they had trained. Nor could they afford to start over at another college.
I was supposed to get a certificate from the make-up & fashion school. I never got it, nor did I get my portfolio pictures. I did get a diploma, which is such a cheap looking thing I was once accused of faking it *sigh* Thankfully SAIT followed through on its promises of diplomas, nice professional-looking diplomas on fancy paper stock, and my provincial certificate is held in worldwide respect (if not validity.)
So here's hoping I can get these two business admin certificates. And hoping they'll help me get my life back on track.
.....which leaves me twiddling my thumbs for four months. D'oh! This is the only downside to sucking up learning at speeds in excess of fast.
The teachers have been discussing what to do with me, because they really can't have me hanging around all bored, I might get into mischief or start scheming to rob banks or battle superstitious criminals in tight clothing (the criminals, not me. No sense in casting pearls before swine.) So they started looking at certificate courses. I've already qualified for the Word Processing certificate, and it turns out I'm one Photoshop course away from qualifying for a Business Computing certificate. Turns out I'm two home-study courses away from an Admin Assistant for Small Business certificate (technically only two, as Access was one of the offered electives, but I want Quickbooks too.) Sooooo they're trying to get me the books for those courses, because having some more certificates on my resume will really help my job prospects.
Certificates have been the bane of my educational existence. I keep getting gypped out of them, for one stupid reason after another. I take the courses, but I can't prove it because I don't have the damned certificates. The most frustrating example was the Secretarial course (what they used to call an Administration Assistant back in the dark ages) at the Career College. I took the courses, at a cost of six grand (double that for today's equivalent value), and near to graduation... the Career College closed its doors. With no warning. And no refunds. And no certificates.
I've been able to work around the high school diploma issue, but the Career College certificate is particularly nasty because, with no certificate and no school, there was absolutely no verification of my claims to have taken all of these courses, and no employer would touch me. Very quickly we discovered that the Career College had been blacklisted throughout all of its target industries, and NO CC student could find work in the fields for which they had trained. Nor could they afford to start over at another college.
I was supposed to get a certificate from the make-up & fashion school. I never got it, nor did I get my portfolio pictures. I did get a diploma, which is such a cheap looking thing I was once accused of faking it *sigh* Thankfully SAIT followed through on its promises of diplomas, nice professional-looking diplomas on fancy paper stock, and my provincial certificate is held in worldwide respect (if not validity.)
So here's hoping I can get these two business admin certificates. And hoping they'll help me get my life back on track.