With only a little over a year and a half left at the hospital to get my 20 years in I have been trying to get my degree finished up so I could move on to another career and find a job closer to home. I have been paying for them out of my own pocket as I do not want school loans so have been going part-time only. As of late though no classes were being taken due to the economy and cutbacks being accrued at the hospital. Everybody pretty much took a hit somewhere. Now that the deductions are no longer happening I can start back taking classes. I usually take mine online due to the fact that it is difficult for me to actually show up in a class at a regularly scheduled time. I most likely will not have it completely done by the time I get 20 years but that is okay because I can still expand on my knowledge in my current position to vie for a raise.

Learn.com has recently launched the Learn.com Personal Edition which affects you and I. Job skills in any work place are a requirement which can vary from being proficient in specific computer software to customer service and business management expectations. Learn.com gives us access to the compliance and continuing education courses which are needed on a yearly basis in the medical field to either keep your license and/or be up to date in your compliance courses to stay employed. Some people probably think that even if you do not hold a license whether it be for physician, nurse, therapist, etc, that you would not need to take these courses but you do because even with compliance courses as it directly affects your job. If you are not in the medical field there are also options for sales, human resources, marketing, etc. There are a vast amount of choices.

I had the opportunity to test out some of the courses that Learn.com was offering and chose the Executive Secretaries and Administrative Assistants job profile in the Computer Use section as I have to use a computer in all aspects of my current job and am going to college for a degree in this field. I honestly could see quite a few people who would need this course due to the lack of computer knowledge and how computers function. You would think that most people are at least familiar with computers for the most part but they are not really. I’d certainly recommend it to one of my coworkers as I know it would greatly help her overall knowledge and perhaps some older folks who have not had that much experience with computers. It also looks like I could take some of my courses online via Learn.com as well should I choose to transfer my credits which is always an option especially if it might be more inexpensive than what I am currently paying for.