Go to School, Work at Home Business Opportunties for Students
Posted by admin | Home Schooling | Posted on October 21st, 2010
Lots of high-school and college students find themselves needing jobs while they are attending school. However, lots of jobs will not hire these students because of their limitations on their schedules. After all, most students are only able to work in the mid afternoons and into the evenings. Lots of places have these spots filled. So what’s the answer? How can college kids and high-school kids still work while attending school? They can work at home.
Time-Saver
Working at home saves time. Kids won’t have to worry about getting home from school and rushing upstairs for a shower and a change of clothes, all the while trying to stuff a bite to eat down their throats before they’ve got to go to work. They will be able to simply come home when it’s convenient for them and do the work at their own pace. They can work all night, or they can work for an hour. They can even possibly do their work at school if there is free time. It’s their choice.
Money-Saver
Working at home not only saves you time, it saves you money as well. Maybe the child working does not have gas money to get to work. Maybe he’s short for bus fare as well, and his parents are at work. What is he to do? He may not have time to walk or it could be pouring rain outside. Working at home, the child will not have to worry about how he will get back and forth to work, because he lives at his work. Money for gas is no longer a problem.
Looks Good
Doing clerical, accounting, writing, editing or proofreading jobs at home online will look great on many things when the child gets older. It will look good on college applications as well as job applications. It will show the employers that the child was responsible in high school and that he has the skills he needs to be able to do that job well. Colleges will see that the child was able to take on more responsibilities than just school. They will want him as well. These online jobs will also give the child more experience about what it’s like to work and have to meet deadlines, as well as giving the child the necessary work skills he’ll need later on in life.
Making Money Online
Though online work-at-home jobs are not always a sufficient source of income, it can be good money for the child to advance toward something larger. Maybe the child is close to getting his license and is looking to buy a car. The work-at-home job will give him money to start saving up toward that car. Same with a house. Maybe a child in college is ready to move out. He can save money toward his house or other investments to be made in the future. If no one needs to save money, online jobs are great sources of extra money that can be spent on the child’s desires, such as that new CD that just came out or those shoes he saw at the mall last week that he just has to have.
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Students Need to be Aware of the Reputations of Online Schools
Posted by admin | Online Schools | Posted on October 19th, 2010
I saw a very funny but rude YouTube video the other day mocking the University of Phoenix. The video featured a few college-aged kids and the slogan observed over and over again was “Do you have a credit card? Get your degree in three easy steps: 1) Enter your name 2)Enter your credit card and 3) print your degree” The video would also show rising text and shout “Feenex Online!” (or any equally mispelled word). This part of the video was obviously a parallel to both commercialism and the reputation of the school for poor spelling and grammar. It was understandable that the University of Phoenix students watching the video responded by saying they found the video tasteless. They said that these kids were just being very rude and ignorant. Unfortunately, as discussed on http://onlineschoolmyths.blogspot.com this opinion seems to match the majority of the population.
Students from online schools want to believe that their school is well respected. Perhaps they are proud of what they accomplished, and they may have every right to be so. Or perhaps they simply want to kid themselves into believing that they are getting a good education because it was simply the only option they had available. Unfortunately, these students do not seem to be willing to accept the fact that their education is typically not well-regarded among the rest of the population. I personally cannot attest to the quality of any of these online schools since I was never a student nor an employee at any of them. However, any time a school like the University of Phoenix is mentioned, almost everyone around me laughs at it.
I personally wonder if those schools that actually provide a good education will ever be recognized as such. For the time being, graduates of these institutions are going to have to contend with these issues. They want to believe that their school is well respected but they are going to be in a shock unless they already happen to have a job. If they don’t believe this, they should listen to a report by a faculty member from the University of Phoenix stating that 25% of employers find online degrees unacceptable and 50% find an online degree to be inferior to other schools. Of course, this says nothing for the schools with really bad reputations. So those students who think that they will have the same opportunities as everyone else are being very naive and unrealistic.
Students attending any college should first stop and ask themselves what they want from their education and how their education will contribute to their success. Unfortunately, some schools will not help them get there, which is something they need to be realistic about.