Best Careers

My husband and I did everything by the book.  We both worked hard in the traditional sense, he worked in law and I raised the kids.  After 30+ years with the same company he retired with a nice retirement package.  I never bothered getting so much as an associate degree because my main job was to raise the kids.  Although, now after the aggressive investments we made to retire early have failed we find ourselves in an unplanned situation.  I will either have to go to work to help save for a while, or our retirement will be put off by approximately 15 years by our estimation. 

I have decided to complete a degree and acquire an accredited associates degree in paralegal studies.  Even though I am not excited about the reasons I am returning to school I am still excited to learn.  I feel like I am finally completing something that I will have total ownership of, my education.  I have even talked about continuing on with a ba degree after completion of the program.

In addition, I think it will be fun to work in the same office as my husband for a while. More than likely, we will not get to work on the same cases, but I look forward to seeing him more often then I did when he was in the middle of his career.

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Many people think that choosing a college major and getting a job is something that requires a lot of thought. While it’s true that you should think through this type of big decision, it is also important to realize that you really need to follow your heart when it comes to figuring out what you want to do for the rest of your life.

Many people are afraid to dream big when it comes to their careers. Say that you want a pro golf career. Do you start looking at golf colleges to try to go for this big dream? Or do you tell yourself that you’re never going to make it as a professional golfer and then just give up? Most people in this position wouldn’t even bother looking into golf schools because they would talk themselves out of going for this type of goal.

You should never tell yourself that you can’t do what you want to do. Try it. If you fail then at least you’ll know that you went for it. In the end, you are always going to be more unhappy about those things that you didn’t even dare to try than you are about anything you tried and failed at.

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If you’re addicted to the internet like I am, you read plenty of interesting articles. Every day, I spend hours reading online newspapers and blogs. I’ve learned quite a bit by doing this.

Today, I read an interesting article about online colleges. According to this piece, the enrollment in these online training facilities has increased significantly lately. It seems college marketing and enrollment services have been highly effective in convincing students to forego attending a traditional college.

The article says that these students are using a degree finding resource to find the school that best matches their needs. As our society is getting busier by the day, these pupils need to find a school that fits within their busy schedule of work and family commitments.

What surprised me was the amount of opportunities these online training programs offer. You can get everything from a bachelor degree health sciences  to an online masters business administration. What use to cost up tens of thousands of dollars to achieve can now be had at an affordable cost in a convenient setting.

If I could do it all over, I’d definitely consider attending an online college. What do you think?

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Picture this. Your best friend tells you that she has just signed up to take computer programming classes at Briarcliffe Patchogue. Nevermind that you’ve never heard of the school before. Do you even know what it is that she will be doing when she completes the computer programming classes and gets a job in the programming field?

There are four basic aspects that make up computer programming work:

1. Writing. This is the process of writing the codes for computer programs.
2. Testing. You can’t just write the program and be done because there’s a good chance that it’s not going to work the first time around. That’s why there are testing phases to go through in computer programming.
3. Debugging. This is when you basically do re-writing to work out the bugs that are found during the testing period.
4. Maintenance. Part of computer programming is keeping the program up to date and maintained over time.

The actual work that is done in computer programming is going to vary from job to job and programmer to programmer but those are the four basic tasks that your friend would be completing in the course of her daily work after completing this type of degree.

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