One year (school help)

[jibnot]

Just looking for some brainstorming help on some schooling, talking about a one year certificate type thing. I have a degree so maybe the core stuff will apply. Anyway leaning medical or some hands on (dirty) service sector direction. The purpose of this is hopefully to provide a fall back, high demand job that lets me work out of the city, as in not in the reach of the city. Part time flexibility options a must. Absolutely no desk or computer monkey shenanigans. ;)

Basically looking for something that would pay the bills while I spend time developing something that hopefully will become a job type thing.

The one year schooling cutoff is a hard timeline, most of my ideas seem to take more like two years. Apprenticeship would also work.


Nice to hear some rambling if ya feel like it.

[LazyL]

I'm guessing you have severance bennies that include retraining money, hence the desire to do a school-cert gig?

OK, rural postman doesn't require schooling, but I'll throw the idea out there. My sis does this part-time in Hawaii. In some rural areas, the U.S. Postal Service contracts out the home delivery work. You put in a bid for a route or routes (say, $50K). Low bid wins. You have to supply the car, gas, repairs (all tax deductible -- write off your vehicle). You haul your be-hind out of bed early, go pick up some boxes of mail, drive around in the pretty countryside. Everybody loves you...you get X-mas gifts from the people on your route...maybe even get to fulfill your porn fantasy of a lonely housewife showing up at the door in a Gorilla suit, waiting to ravage you. Sneak in some stealth runs on the mountain during the route, or apres.

Get a route in a remote area with lots o' mountains.

My sis' ex bids on a bunch of routes, gets the contracts, then sub-contracts them to starving hippies.

You make your own hours (kinda); you have free time to work on your real stuff; it's relatively mindless but not demeaning; gets you out of the house; preserves your mental steez for your personal projects. Mainly, it's a non-city job.

[jibnot]

Yup you are right about the training, selfish me wants to go to school in the mountains and ride/learn for a bit. Honestly though my job did morph into something that is not very marketable, who wants a full time artsy slacker who maybe puts in an hour a day to tell people where to put labels on products and what color things should be. Okay I did a bit more then that but not much. An un-motivating factor is my unemployment insurance pays more then most mountain jobs.

Have thought of that, at 31 surprisingly have 100% clean driving record if you exclude getting pulled over for a burnt out tail light.

I have heard it’s a hard job to actually get into? Think I would need a GPS; I drive by landmarks not sings and street names.

Thanks L

[Tantrum]

An AA degree in Culunary Arts from the Colorado Mountain College in Summit. If you get a job with Keystone/Vail, you could get a FREE season pass. You won't have to sit at a desk and you could be quite the catch for the females if you knew how to cook.:D

http://www.coloradomtn.edu/programs/cua/home.html

[jibnot]

An AA degree in Culunary Arts

A friend who got laid off is doing that in Denver. Think it’s more of a personal thing for him. For me the answer is no on that one, it may be fun but living paycheck to paycheck is not. Willing to take a big cut but not $6-7 an hour. Looking for the 30-35G? starting job in a RURAL ski area or nearby You can actually make good money in cooking if you go to the top but that’s actually a full time stressful hell. Little cooking besides creating the menu, more inventory and management.

Hospitals are everywhere and I have worked in the medical industry so I’m leaning that way. X-ray technician seems like one could move up to more advanced imagery to a cretin extent. I think also that with the demand hospitals are a good resource for further in house or finical support with training once you are in. helping people is cool but damn I have done some observations at hospitals and just observing kicked my ass. I’ve searched long and hard for a page that defines all the health care jobs but it all seams conflicting, incomplete and then tying to match career interests to schooling is another mess. Think I’m losing my highly prided google skills……..ya know of the mother load of all healthcare jobs with descriptions, salaries and schools all in one?

[Tantrum]

Health care directory ---> https://catalog.ama-assn.org/Catalog/product/product_detail.jsp?productId=prod120006?checkXwho= done
Health care salaries ---> http://www.wageweb.com/health1.htm

Between the two, you may find some new information.

[DrBunda]

Think I’m losing my highly prided google skills……..ya know of the mother load of all healthcare jobs with descriptions, salaries and schools all in one?

Aside from the others mentioned, ONET database has just about every job in the world.

http://www.onetcenter.org/

From there you can go to ONET Online for more stuff.......

http://online.onetcenter.org/

Was created by the government based on KSAs (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities). You can do all sorts of crap on that website, and there is a link there to Salary Info, detailed job descriptions, type of training needed, type of schooling needed, all sorts of crap. And you can pick my Job Family (i.e., healthcare).

http://www.acinet.org/acinet/