Dr Copa

When I go online I frequently find advertisements that are encouraging people to return to school in order to get better jobs. there are frequent stories about what jobs will be in the most demand in the near future.

Many of the stories indicate that health fields are always going to be growing especially since the baby boom generation is aging. That would make sense except that with all this talk about how the government might be reducing Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid benefits I have to wonder if there’s really going to be that much demand since people won’t be able to afford to pay for the medical services.  

Regardless it’s nice to know that there are companies still awarding grants for physical therapy students and other medical fields. I’d like to think that people will still be able to afford medical care during my lifetime.

If the country is going to be trying to increase in employment through fixing the countries infrastructure, then going after engineering grants to get a degree in civil engineering would also be a smart idea because we almost always have demand for engineers around here,

My cousin is driving me crazy. She is always complaining on Facebook about how hard life is for her young family. She is young, has two babies by two different fathers, and her current boyfriend isn’t working. She has never worked a serious job, either. No wonder she is miserable! I have told her time and again to get online and find out what kind of Federal Student Aid she might be qualified for so she can go back to school and finish her education. I even gave her this link: http://studentaid2.ed.gov/gotocollege/collegefinder/advanced_find.asp and told her I would help her fill out the forms.

Last time we talked about her job potential, she mentioned that she had worked a couple of months in a law firm and really liked it. So I suggested she take online degree programs in paralegal and get certified as a paralegal. But she hasn’t pursued that – she’s been applying at the local mall for a retail clerk position instead.

I really don’t see what her problem is. With all the Online Schools and financial aid available, she should be getting a degree and making plans for a future for herself and her family. These part time retail jobs are just another dead end. Why can’t she see that?

So you have decided you want to do an apprenticeship – then you realise how many there are to choose from! Here are a few things to think about when deciding what is most appropriate for you.

Firstly you need to consider what you will be doing on the job. Many apprenticeships included working outdoors which is fine in the summer but you need to consider what the winter months are like. Roofing training Durham may be much colder in November then you had realised when you signed up in July so maybe you would prefer something indoors like electrician courses County Durham. Many people hate being stuck indoors so the thought of being outside all year could be quite appealing! You may have to deal with animals or children – both of which can be a handful at the best of times so you should consider whether you could cope with everyday at work.

There are pro’s and con’s of every course so it may be a good idea to write all of those down and decided which are most applicable to you and therefore which is most appealing.

You then need to decide how long you wish to be doing an apprenticeship. The minority are flexible and last between a couple of months and a couple of year’s dependant on how many hours a week you wish to commit. For example if you are enrolled on plastering courses Peterlee but you wish to remain earning a good wage, you may want to spread your apprenticeship over a longer period of time so you can continue doing as many hours work as you can.

I am constantly amazed at how much the Internet has made life easier.  For example, my wife was telling me about a friend of hers that is getting a canadian pardon application over the Internet.  She apparently has a criminal record canada from a stunt that she pulled when she was a teenager.  She wouldn’t tell me what the stunt was – I guess that’s part of the girlfriend code.

But I think that it is amazing that you can start the process to remove criminal record through use of the Internet!  Back in my youthful days, I can remember a friend that got into trouble and tried to have his criminal record removed and he had to hire lawyers and send petitions to the state governor through the US Mail.  I wonder if I’ll ever cease to be amazed at how much the Internet has simplified life!

My wife keeps telling me that her brain is tired long before it’s time to go to bed at night.  She has such a mentally active life, and now she is trying to learn a new job, so she is in training.  She tells me that she studies as hard as she can until stuff starts to fall off of the top of her head and then she has to stop.

I can empathize with that, can’t you?  There are times when I’m trying to memorize somethings for one of the clubs that I belong to and after a while I’ve found that I can read something seven or eight times and not have a clue what I’m reading.  I guess everyone’s brain has a saturation point!

What is rather sad about that is the knowledge that as people age, their ability to learn can decrease.  I can remember taking a course in psychology a long time ago where the professor explained that when people reach the age of fifty their language skills decrease but their math skills increase.  Just remembering that scares the begeezus out of me because my language skills are pretty rough to begin with!  I’ve been learning that everyone needs to keep exercising their brain muscle.