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wildmanh

wildmanh

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I got the official word on Saturday, the store will be closing in 2 weeks. Sunday March 2nd is the last day of business. I'll be employed for a few more days to do cleanup work. After that I'm taking a few weeks of unemployment pay and going camping and visiting family. In late March and early April it's easy to find jobs because this is a college town and school gets out then so I'll have any easier time looking for something.

Durring my "Vacation" I'll be applying to the local University and Colleges for this fall. I'm looking into getting Reeducation assistance from the local Work Force services department. I may qualify for some aid through them do to the fact that I've been with the company 3 years as of Thursday and the company is now no longer around. Will try all angles avaliable to me for Finantial aid. I want to do all I can not to have student loans, but I am willing to do that too. Mainly I want to avoid having to work 20 to 30 hours a week to go to school. I did better in school when I wasn't working 3/4 time also. Plus I want my weekends free to go camping and do Service projects.

Have desided to look for degress related to the National forest service, BLM and Park services. Wildlands management, Conservation or Parks and recreation. Will be talking with cousellers soon about such carear paths. Am also considering getting a summer job with a local State or Federal Park to get a feel for things. In 2000 when I first went to college I was there for an Associates of Applied Science in Computer Networking with an Ephisis in Microsoft networks. That was Windows 98 and Windows 2000 Pro/Server. Now we are up to Vista and I think I'll try something else that has also had my interest for many years. Used to joke about doing a Double Major, one in Networking the other in Parks and Recreation. Well, here goes the other one. :)

Thanks for listening and praying for me. Any advice would be greatly apreciated. If anyone knows anything about the fields I listed, I'd love to hear from you either in this thread or on email. Mine is listed. Thanks again,

Heber
 
Good luck, Heber!

Sounds like you are in a position to do anything that you want. How liberating!:thumbup:

I'm with you on the work/school thing. Part of the reason that I had such a hard time in college was that I had to work to live. Target used to work me 38 hours a week (just shy of getting any benefits) plus I had 16 hours of classes. Target always made me close, so early classes sometimes didn't happen. Wash, rinse, repeat for a junior and senior year, and I had had enough.

Go get 'em, bud:)
 
Dunno if it's feasible, but the daughter of a friend got a summer internship with the National Parks Service, which paid, and which continued past her graduation to a full time job with them.

Neat kid.

Worth a look.





Kis
enjoy every sandwich
 
I will pray for you, and i am glad to see you have a plan, and a good spirit to go with it. unforseen blessings are likely ahead.

take care,

Tom
 
Heber,
I always enjoy the energy from starting something new. You sound like you have the right idea already.
I'm Glad that a part of your plan is getting out into natures forest. I hear what your saying about work/study, that was a drain to college, so was youth...lol. Some could do it, I could not.
Don't try and rush it, enjoy every little thing.

mark
 
Kismet said:
Dunno if it's feasible, but the daughter of a friend got a summer internship with the National Parks Service, which paid, and which continued past her graduation to a full time job with them.

Neat kid.

Worth a look.

Kis
enjoy every sandwich
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The Kid or the Job posibilities? ;)

Around here we have Timanogas State Park and if I looked to the south east I could find more. Am looking into applying for a summer internship with one of them. :) Or possibly the national forests.

Heber
 
Steely_Gunz said:
Good luck, Heber!

Sounds like you are in a position to do anything that you want. How liberating!:thumbup:

I'm with you on the work/school thing. Part of the reason that I had such a hard time in college was that I had to work to live. Target used to work me 38 hours a week (just shy of getting any benefits) plus I had 16 hours of classes. Target always made me close, so early classes sometimes didn't happen. Wash, rinse, repeat for a junior and senior year, and I had had enough.

Go get 'em, bud:)
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In college I sometimes worked till 2am then had 8am classes and that just didn't work. I need my 8 hours of sleep. Part time in the after noons or right before class is the only way I'll do it now. Some semesters I'd have the 12am to 2am shift but classes would start for me around 11am or later so that wasn't to bad. How did you ever survive? I flunked out once, don't plan on doing it again.

Heber
 
Eric, Tom, Mark and kamkazmoto, thanks for the good thoughts. :) When I got my Wisdom teeth out a few weeks ago I also had my sister cut my hair really short. It was time for a change and I could feel it. Cutting the hair helped though I still felt more was needed. The last few months I've been trying to come up with something to do afterwards and it recently hit me. Which was a really good feeling because I've felt like I've been wandering for quite a while. With a path to look into I'm feeling lots better.

This morning as I lay in bed I listened to the Robins singing about spring. We still have snow in drifts and in some places here in the valley. Winter is still lingering but the animals are talking about spring each morning. I guess it's from living in the country most of my life. I can tell the changes in the animals and in the weather. Different sounds and smells. I can sometimes smell an aproching snow storm a day or two out. One summer and fall I lived in the mountains probably around 9500 to 10,000 in elevation. In someways it was a good experience and I learned a lot.

My point is, I can sence the animals getting ready for a chance and the enviroment around us and I to am getting ready for a chance. Am glad it's not an instant change though sometimes I want that. Some friends and I figure that we can go camping about the time I get let go. Even if we have to do it in my mom's back yard, we will do it. :) I really want to be closer to nature thats part of the reason for me wanting a job with the forest service or national/state parks. The Medium city life is okay I guess but the country life is more my thing. As soon as the snow starts melting up the canyon and I can easally walk in shoes in the parks up there I'll probably spend many hours a week walking around the trails. Provo Canyon has a paved trail that goes from the top all the way down, through the valley and out to Utah Lake. Then there are off shoots though out the valley and canyon. I'm thinking of exploring some of them. All of it is accesible year round and my hiking boots are water proof, but some friends I hike with might not like the wet so much. I'd rather have some friends along for Safety sake and company. ;)

Well, I'm going to get ready for the day and enjoy my 2 days off in a row. Next day of work for me is Thursday so I might be on a lot day dreaming or some such fun. :) Thanks guys!!

Heber
 
wildmanh said:
How did you ever survive? I flunked out once, don't plan on doing it again.

Heber
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I didn't. While I didn't flunk out, I just sort of stopped after 4 years. I had all the required psychology courses for a BS in general psych. However, I was about 3 semesters away from graduating due to core classes and electives. Honestly, I was planning on doing what I am doing today, but the sheep's skin on the wall would have been nice.

Luckily, I think that next fall I will enroll in a nontraditional student course offered by my alma mater where they factor in life experiences as well as the type of real-world work that you have done and apply it toward credit. It shouldn't take me long to finish and almost all of the stuff is available online and at my own pace.

Even though I have enough skills, experience, and contacts to never want for work, not finishing what I have started is my greatest regret.

Good luck, Heber. The conservation and outdoor preservation field would have been a very close second choice for me to pursue.:thumbup:
 
Steely_Gunz said:
Even though I have enough skills, experience, and contacts to never want for work, not finishing what I have started is my greatest regret.

Good luck, Heber. The conservation and outdoor preservation field would have been a very close second choice for me to pursue.:thumbup:
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One of my regrets in life was not doing better in school and not getting that degree when it was offered at my local comunuty college. Good luck with your plans to go back. I'm sure we both will have good experiences. :)

I started High school a year late for my age. That was the fall of 1996, I didn't go in 1995 because I didn't like the local high school and a friend that went had problems with something in the building. Alergys. So we didn't go. A year later I was accepted into the Alternative/acelerated learning/makeup school where I knew half the teachers. That was much better. I challeneged lots of math classes it was soo easy. Lots of classes were sooo easy. I only lasted the whole 4 years because I wanted the experience. There were a lot of interesting things to learn.

The summer of 2000, I could graduate with my GED. I slacked off the last few semesters do to the lovely weather we had and how boored I was with it. LOL!! So GED was my way into college. I took a few summer school classes at the high school that delt with Wildlands conservation and reclemation. We had a week field trip tooring old mines that were reclamed and current mines. Studied the enviromental impact of them and all softs of fun stuff. Was more an excuse to play but I did learn. Then I went to college that fall for Networking. Had great experiences but always leaned towards the outdoor stuff. Probably why I did so well in the Presidency of the Outdoors club for so many years. In college I hoped that they would get more classes in the outdoor fields and conservation and management. But alas they didn't. Now's my chance to do it over again in those fields.

I thank the lord often for my chance to work in a nice job and now the chance to go back to school. Even though I'm loosing a job I've had for 3 years I'm not worried. My finances are okay for now and I have a plan. :) And plenty of time for a while to hang out at the cantina! I bet I've made more posts here in the last 2 days then I did the last month. LOL!!

Heber
 
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