need some advice

by Champion 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  Champion

  Hi all...always read seldom post...

  I was just wondering if anyone has some advice for me in regard to a career. I have been home raising kids and know would like to re enter the work force. I took some design classes early on(in my 20's) but never got a degree. I actually had a pretty substantial buying job in fashion for about 6 years. My problem is I always acted like I had a college degree but now they can check. I am thinking about getting a degree but quite honestly I am alittle scared. I am smart but sometimes alittle too ADD.. Any advice???

  Sorry if this sounds lame!!
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  sweetstuff

  First figure out for sure what you want to do, maybe go back into fashion? Experience sometimes will win out over a degree, not always but sometimes. Maybe taking a marketing degree would be something you would enjoy.
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  Dorktacular

  Many colleges offer night time, weekend and web-based classes. Some even offer special discounts for people like yourself who left the rat race to raise a family and now want to resume your carreer and/or education. Where I work, they actually pay for people's classes. That's the best of both worlds. You can have a job that pays you to work and then pays for you to go to school, too. :)
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  TIMBOB

  I would def. look into a local community college. They are much cheaper and are more personal,IMO. My suggestion is GO. Thats the hardest part. Talk to admissions and they can help you find out what you wanna do. Also, dont be scared. I work at a local Community College. I would say that the middle aged parent is around 50% of the students here. So, your not the only one wanting to better your life.

  Hope it works out well for you, let us know how your doing with it
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  mrsjones5

  Yep, go to school and get the design degree...you'll love it.
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  Champion

  Thanks everyone.. I am going to call my local Community College and just find out what I need to get started. It's always so weird to talk with people outside of EX-JW's because they just can't believe anyone who graduated HS in the late 70's didn't go to school..I took some courses at Parsons in Manhattan and just BS'd my way into Fashion buying because I lived in NYC. I wished I would have kept persuing my degree but I had very little drive because the WORLD WAS ENDING SOON!
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  bigmouth

  "and just BS'd my way into Fashion buying because I lived in NYC."
  
  Sounds like you might be a natural for something in sales and marketing!
  
  My wife was a bit like you. Never going to finish high school. Never have kids. Never be a grandmother.....Oh @#$% it!
  
  Now, at 43, she's finishing her first year of midwifery.