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Re: SIGIA-L: survey results: professional credentials for IAs
From: Eileen Turtle Parzek (turtle_at_turtlesweb.com)
Date: Wed Nov 08 2000 - 15:44:23 EST
>Regardless, I find myself yearning for formal education. It's perhaps a
>reflex,
>for here I am for the first time in three and a half years without a semester,
>but at full-time work. Maybe I just miss going to school, or maybe I need to
>readjust to *this* new learning mode. Either way, I just want to soak up as
>much knowledge as possible, be it theory or applied...
I could have written this letter myself - I am so completely in the same
boat as you! I waited til I was in my 20's to return to college, as a night
student while working for the NYS government, and got a degree in graphic
design. This is what I jokingly call my "computer appreciation degree",
because I learned that until you draw a straight 3 pt line with a t-square
and rapidograph, you can't worship computers properly : ) I graduated in
'94, started web development shortly after in '95, and have recently begun
salivating over the courses I could take now. Like you, I've got this
'veteran old school experience' behind me now and I'm afraid to stop for a
moment in case the youngsters gain ground :o)
But, I'm thinking perhaps I could go back to school in little bits
- take a course per semester that interests me, and maybe that would
juice whatever is yearning for school (I haven't totally forgot what a
nightmare evening college was, though). Have you considered that option?
Perhaps even a certificate program or something? If your goal was to
scratch the itch, and not to get a degree, this might work for you. Its
part of my grand master scheme for the next phase of my career (which might
be sooner than I thought, for those of you interested in the mess I've
gotten into lately *grin*)
Good luck to you - and never stop learning, however it comes!
~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.
Eileen "Turtle" Parzek, Creative Director, Predixis
digital artistry, interface creation, information design
turtle_at_turtlesweb.com ~ www.turtlesweb.com ~ 518-505-6617
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