Help Me Change my Career

[Cusser]

[vwwestyman]

[cdennisg]

This is great news. We're all pulling for you.
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[marklaken]

A lot of the enrollment deadlines are based on financial aid applications. That may impact your timing. Also - there are some tax breaks for full time students - I believe $2k/year for grad students and $2500/year for first two years of undergrad. You'll need a phd in accounting to figure it all out.
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Mark Laken
Fort Collins, CO

[vwwestyman]

[TDCTDI]

What's the possibility of finding needed position in your field where they'll pay for your necessary degree/certificates in return for your indentured servitude for a given number of years?
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GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


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Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[sb001]

[vwwestyman]

Glad I decided to come back to this thread to update a little, for the link above.

I got word yesterday that they did approve me to start this fall with taking a couple classes!

So here I go!! (Well, in a couple weeks.)

Now I've gotta figure out how to pay for it... Not lots of money in the ole budget for extras like expensive college tuition. I will certainly be spending lots of time on things like scholarships and other financial aid, but for this first semester I may just have to use the credit card, unfortunately, due to classes starting in two weeks or so. Not my preference but not the end of the world either.
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Dave Cook

President, Wild Westerner Club

1978 Champagne Edition Westy, repowered to '97 Jetta TDI
1973 Wild Westerner
My Thing

[cbeck]

My daughter was just offered a 4 year, $100,000 scholarship at rensaeler poly tech. Too bad academic alone is $54,000 a year. She was also offered a full acedemic ride at yale, but she feels that is not where rednecks go. She is applying at mo s&t. She found out they do a masters degree in "blowing shit up".
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[*Darren]

[vwwestyman]

[vwwestyman]

I got a topic reply notification for this thread, but I guess the reply was deleted.

But for whoever may still be interested, I can provide a bit of an update!



First off, the girl I mentioned dating earlier, well we're engaged! (At least, I'm pretty sure I mentioned dating a girl and something about seeing how it would play out...) Wedding is in March. Plan for the honeymoon is taking my Westy on a road trip in May.

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8936035#8936035

The timing of those things is because I was fully admitted to the social work school!

The wedding coincides with the first Saturday of Spring Break. So that way I should have a little down time with regards to classes and all that. We'll do at couple nights at a local Air BNB place, and then hang out the rest of the week.

The honeymoon trip coincides with the break between the spring and summer semesters. I felt like it would be whole lot to do, to try to go on a honeymoon during spring break, because the timing of the online classes and all that means that they don't really start and end exactly with a regular week.

It all also gives me some extra time to get the Bus ready and should provide nicer weather for wherever we decide to drive it to.

So the first half of 2018 proved to be overall pretty damn frustrating. But I was reflecting on it last night (and have a few other times) and I do feel like that is what gave me a kick in the pants to go and work toward some better things.
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Dave Cook

President, Wild Westerner Club

1978 Champagne Edition Westy, repowered to '97 Jetta TDI
1973 Wild Westerner
My Thing

[Cusser]

[calvinater]

Remember to start the nickle jar on your honeymoon.

First year a nickle goes in every time you have sex.
After that you take a nickel out every time you have sex.
See if you can ever empty that jar .

😎

Just kidding , best of luck to you and her , wedding pics please.
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[Volks Wagen]

You can sell drugs to make it thru the college fees. I thought everyone knew that.
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[mark tucker]

looking for new job?new opportunity's?, flexible schedule? meat new people? new chance at new training? just eff up one more time and.....your fired!!!!
witch reminded me of something...I called in with a headache one day,the boss said when he gets a headache he just go's home and has passionate sex with his wife and then returns to work with no head ache... that too got me fired when I got to work and told him he has a very nice wife and home.......wtf? he told me to....didnt he? oops almost forgot ..congrats on the welding!!!!

[nsracing]

[Zundfolge1432]

About a month ago I spoke with the Managing director of an aviation technical college about employee opportunities for recent graduates, namely freshly minted A&P mechanics and inspectors. He told me there is currently a shortage and it’s projected to get worse.

Currently airline mechanics top pay exceeds 50 dollars an hour with benefits, paid vacations, sick time, matching 401k, discounts to numerous to mention and some even still offer pensions. This for a job that has you home every night but what are the requirements?

To comply with Federal Aviation Regulations you’d need to have 24 months of schooling and pass a three part test, speak and read English fluently and have a clean criminal record, no felonies or drug arrests.

People coming out of military can get waivers for time requirements and move directly to testing. So if a person was willing to meet these requirements in less than three years you could be on your way to earning a decent check.

My neighbor has worked in the industry for 40 years and currently works 20 days on 10 days off for a cargo carrier. His function is to be with the airplane and plan and direct all maintenance and repairs and sign the logbook, that’s it and he spends much of his time in Europe.

I mention this because I asked the question about being a mechanic and got feedback from auto mechanics, those are honest assessments. I might add that being a mechanic of any kind is rough on your body so anyone considering this would be wise to observe all the safety precautions and be aware of the hazards and poisons used.

I made a career change to aviation in the early 1980s after having worked in oil industry as a roughneck and roustabout 12 hours a day 7 days a week. It’s been a good ride and I’ll be looking at retirement real soon.

[vwwestyman]

I think it is funny that this thread has popped back up.

The airline mechanic thing sounds pretty interesting; If I'd have heard about it two years ago, I might have looked at that!

But, as it stands, I'm now 89 days away from graduating with my Master of Social Work Degree and I'm pretty excited about becoming a therapist. Though I don't know the exact route I'll take to get there just yet, my long term goal is to have my own private practice, or perhaps join with my friend's current practice.

When I graduate and get my license (that test is scheduled for March 7), I'll only be able to bill Medicaid and take private pay clients until I'm eligible to get my Clinical license, and that takes about two years. At that point, I'll also be able to take most private insurances (which widens my potential client pool significantly.)

So I will likely have to get some kind of part-time or PRN type job while I'm working to build up the practice.

Also, my wife and I got married last March. So it's been a whirlwind of a couple years! I'm a bit excited for things to slow down just a little.
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Dave Cook

President, Wild Westerner Club

1978 Champagne Edition Westy, repowered to '97 Jetta TDI
1973 Wild Westerner
My Thing

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