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I was so grateful that we started looking into college options years prior to my daughters’ high school graduations! As we began our search for answers to questions we knew we had, those answers seemed to almost always lead to more questions!

Online Associate Degrees certainly seemed appealing. They were short term, convenient, highly regarded academically as well as professionally and, in most cases, more cost effective as compared to attending classes on campus. It wasn’t until we discovered the Bachelor Degree programs online that we began to understand the differences between the 2 degrees and the overall effect these differences would have on future career goals.

A Bachelor Degree typically requires 4 years or more of full time study. The idea of spending more than two years furthering their education was an idea that my daughters were not fond of. Although at this point they did understand the importance of obtaining more than a high school education, it was also our consolidated opinion that they could enter the work force and earn an a good salary with an Associate Degree.

The biggest difference we found between those who were currently working with an Associate Degree and those who were working with a Bachelors Degree was related to salary. U.S. Census Bureau statistics showed us that those with a Bachelor Degree were earning more on average than those with an Associate Degree, in addition to the benefits of the additional education and the knowledge that went along with it. However, because obtaining an online college degree at any point in their lives was an option, we initially considered a Bachelors Degree something that could obtained at any point later on in their lives if they so chose, unless they were already definitive about a career choice that required a Bachelor Degree.

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For individuals enrolling in a culinary institute, there are some outstanding opportunities available. As you begin your search for the right school to attend, you should be focused on your specific goals. Ask yourself, where do you want to be in the next five, ten or twenty years. For individuals who want to be running their own business, taking a few business management courses alongside culinary education can be helpful.

In addition to this, consider which type of culinary arts degrees you want to take. Here, the key is to focus on the types of learning you will have. For example, some curriculums focus more on technique rather than the requirements of business management in a restaurant. You also should consider focusing on comparing one school to the next in terms of what it teaches and what they do not teach.  The variety is outstanding and the concepts can be quite impressive.

Culinary training is a fantastic way to get started on your life, but it is a longer process than other jobs. You will need training and experience to do really well. In the coming years, you may need to come back to get additional training too. These schools provide you with that help.

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I have a son on the football team of a local high school. They have a number of fundraising events during the year. Some of the other parents came up with the idea of selling items imprinted with the name of the team as a promotional idea.  They certainly did their homework - they discovered a product imprinting service which was available through an online discount school supply the school uses to get classroom supplies, obtained the price breakdowns for different designs, and we decided to work with the school place an order and try it out.  We had some pens and stationery imprinted and the kids took on the job of selling them.

The stuff proved to be a hit, not only within the school, but around town.  Some stores offered to sell our stuff without taking any kind of cut - the football team has a lot of support in town and people are glad to help us out.

We’ll be getting more stuff imprinted because we ran out quickly. 

I visited the online school supply myself out of curiosity and could see why the school likes doing business with them.  They do a great job with the imprinting service and the football team has been very successful raising the funds they need for the season - they even have a surplus.

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When we are young, we take classes to learn about how to do the things that we want to do with our lives. When we get older, we may or may not take classes so that we can continue this education. If we are really smart, we will use the experience that we have gained to teach classes that will assist younger generations in their learning.

For example, a friend of mine has worked for years in the business of alternative medicine used primarily for back pain treatment. She has taken a lot of classes over the years in topics related to natural pain relief. In fact, she just recently got back from a class on how to use magnetic therapy products for healing back pain.

While it’s important that she has continued her education in order to be able to offer something new to her clients, she also thinks that it is important that she shares what she has learned. Once a week she teaches a class in natural healing to a small group of students in the community. She charges a very low fee for her classes. Although she does it partially to make money, she mostly does it because she has recognized that as we get older we can use our experiences to help others gain the education that they need to do the same type of work that we are doing.

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We spend the first two decades of our life in school to learn the things that we need to know to be able to function well in the society of which we are a part. This formal education gives us social skills as well as basic knowledge that allows us to do the jobs that we might seek to do when we become adults. After these two decades (or for some of us, three decades!) are complete, we switch from formal schooling to a more informal education.

This informal education takes place primarily through the work that we do but it may also occur as the result of life changes that happen as we age. For example, someone who is at the stage of purchasing real property may learn about cost seg engineering and how cost segmentation services can be applied to the reduction of property taxes. That’s not something that would be learned in school but it’s still valuable to know as part of an adult’s life.

Most people consider their formal education to be the most important education that they will ever get. That’s because there is so much emphasis placed on getting that education and doing well in school during the time that this education is being pursued. However, the things that you are going to end up finding important in your adult life are just as likely to be things that you learned through informal education as they are to be things that you learned in school.

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