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I wrote an earlier post that dealt with filing a FAFSA financial aid report. I also wanted to address other ways to find money for school or to finance your education. Check with your employer. Many times employers offer tuition reimbursement for educational expenses. This amount varies by employer and they may only give you [...]
Continue Reading →In May of 2007, 95 year-old Nola Ochs graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in History. She is the oldest person to ever graduate college. So the answer to the age question is absolutely not. You’re not too old, you will NEVER be too old to return to school. Sometimes in the day-to-day struggle of working [...]
Continue Reading →One of the biggest hurdles people face in starting or advancing their education is finding the money to pay for it. There is a lot of money out there if you know where to look. Depending on your financial status y0u may find ways to get your education expenses entirely covered.
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Continue Reading →A lot of people don’t realize that most work done in the pharmacy is done by pharmacy technicians and not the pharmacists. The pharmacists do a very important job, without them we couldn’t have medications, but the pharmacy techs also do an important job. When you visit your local pharmacy you don’t often deal with [...]
Continue Reading →My stepfather had spent thirty years working as a radiology technician at a hospital before he decided to retire. That only lasted about a month before he started to drive my mom crazy. She suggested he look for a small job. He decided to become a medical billing coder. He took an online course [...]
Continue Reading →Did you know that pharmacists actually have their doctorate? It’s called a Pharm D. and takes between six and seven years to complete. Until recently pharmacists only needed a bachelor’s degree but that has changed. If you were great at chemistry in high school then you would probably make a good pharmacist because drugs are [...]
Continue Reading →A few years ago I broke my pinky during a softball game. It hurt like crazy and I actually passed out on the pitcher’s mound on my way to the in-field. Pretty embarrassing since it was just one little finger. A friend drove me to an urgent care center where a radiology technician took xrays [...]
Continue Reading →Trying to find a college or trade school can be a scary task when you think about all the information that’s out there. How do you know which school to choose? What are the “good” schools? How will you know which school will offer you the best education? One way to weed out some [...]
Continue Reading →You’d be surprised at how many jobs there are at a hospital. And the majority of them aren’t nurses. Respiratory therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech therapists, radiology technicians, and medical coding/billing specialists are just a fraction of the types of jobs at a hospital. Many of them only require two years, or less, [...]
Continue Reading →One of the biggest hurdles of going to school is finding the money. Fortunately, there is a lot of financial help out there for nursing students. Scholarships, grants, loans, and tuition reimbursement all help pay for school. If you start working part-time or fill-time at a hospital many of them offer tuition reimbursement programs. They [...]
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