Wish me luck

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Originally Posted by slartibartfast

Some of the online programs might be good, and some are absolutely useless.

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My lack of knowledge about whether or not they were any good was why I suggested looking in to it, rather than saying "you should do this" type of thing. I probably could have made that more clear. Thank you for sharing your knowledge on the subject.

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Originally Posted by slartibartfast

I've worked with two people who completed online courses at Penn Foster, and found both of them to be shockingly unprepared for basic function in any capacity. One graduate in particular was holding my small female dog in her lap and pointed to her sagging rear nipples (she'd had a litter before I got her) and asked if those were her testicles. When I explained that she was a female those were her nipples, she said "Oh, I've never seen a boy dog underneath before". This was only one of a great many gaps in her knowledge, and yet she had successfully completed the course was, on paper at least, a Veterinary Assistant.

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Not disagreeing with your overall assessment of Penn Foster, as I don't know anything about it and you are in a position to know a lot more. However, with this particular example, I'm not sure I'd blame the school. I mean, I think people should be able to tell the difference between a boy and a girl dog, and the difference between nipples (even saggy I've-been-a-mommy nipples) and testicles. They don't need vet tech school for that. The only thing is, if she'd gone to an in-person kind of school instead of online, she'd have been more likely to have made this mistake and have it corrected while she was still in school instead of after she graduated. But I wouldn't expect there to be a part of the curriculum devoted to teaching that.

This kind of lack of common sense and how to apply textbook knowledge in the real world always reminds me of one of my college roommates. She was pretty smart when it came to taking tests. Pretty stupid when it came to real life applications.

She made tea very frequently. She'd take her tea cup down the hall and fill it with water, bring it back and pour the water in her electric coffee pot to heat it up, put the tea bag in her cup, pour the now hot water in her cup, and wonder why she always ended up with extra water since she had gotten it in the cup in the first place.

Then in chemistry, she was taught that things expand when they get hotter (apparently a concept she'd never heard of before college?). She was so happy that her mystery of why she ended up with extra water was solved.

I can't blame her chemistry professor for that one.

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Originally Posted by Skoalbasher

Any time I go for a job interview, I ALWAYS call them back. They say they will call you, but if you call them, it shows you are interested and that you really want to work there.

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Absolutely! I was once told by someone that the way they decided who to hire was to interview everyone, and basically divide them into definite "No"s and "Possible"s. The first one of the "Possible"s that called back was the one that got the job.