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Vinny Possum
Sep 21, 2015

THUNDERDOME LOSER
I'm 31. I was a big dumbass for most of my twenties, bouncing around various retail jobs. I finished an AA in community college, but then dropped out of university while perusing a degree that would be nearly useless anyway (history). I'm a hard worker, but outside of one very brief stint at a startup that overreached and then had to lay off nearly their entire team, I've hardly ever been more than a dollar or two above minimum wage. I recently accepted a moderately decently paying warehouse job, but as far as I can tell it doesn't have a ton of upward mobility. My current city's community college offers certificates in several areas that I think I could excel at, including dental and medical assisting, facilities maintenance, CIS, and HVAC, as well as several tech-based apprenticeships. Would it be worthwhile to go back to community college part time to earn one of those certificates, or would that be a waste of my time?

How do employers view people who go back to school later in life to learn a trade, and do CC certificates actually look good to employers?

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