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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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By China at 6:41 PM
When I was considering all my schooling options, I found there were many choices out there and found it difficult to sort through all the information I was receiving. I knew that I wanted to take some classes, but considered going to school at night, because I needed to work during the day. I knew balancing the equal importance of work and school was going to be challenging, but I also knew that I wouldn't get anywhere in life if I didn't take the bull by the horns and just do it. After all, I was young enough to manage it all and my employer offered reimbursement for the cost of my classes so that was a big motivating fact also. Once I began looking at my options, I came across information about e-learning, and I really didn't know much about it, but I inquired at work to see if my employer would possibly consider paying for these types of classes instead. They said that they would allow me to attend classes online and upon successful completion that they would reimburse me at the same 100% as they do for other employees attending traditional colleges. It was then that I began inquiring about online training and I found a few classes that were kind of job related and really suit me. I am now signed up for a few business courses as well as windows server 2008 training, which is going to be really helpful I just know it. I am very much looking forward to getting started working my way towards an online degree.
I have been so excited about doing this, that I have a couple people I work with now looking into schooling as well. Most people don't think that they can swing working all day and going to school at night, but with the flexible scheduling that online schooling provides, you can have your cake and eat it too. Online schooling provides flexible scheduling, the ability to work through credit hours faster, and a more condensed, to the point course load that allows you to fly through or crawl through your schooling, whichever you desire.