Kyle Aaron
Active member
I agree that you don't need to go to school to learn, and that a dedicated person can even do better in learning outside school than in it.
But if you want employment in that area, you need to either be a very good self-marketer and not worried about lawsuits, or else get a piece of paper from a school. The whole reason for my profession change is being tired of marketing myself, so I need the piece of paper.
It's plain that a lot of the stuff will be known to me already. But the thing about lack of knowledge is that you often don't know you lack it - so I'm sure there'll be things I learn on these courses.
I think also of my experience with cheffing. Anyone can cook - if you can read, you can cook - but cooking a few meals is a different thing to being a chef, who might have to get 12 meals out in eight minutes, or come up with a new dish on the spot because something's run out, or organise the kitchen and ordering so you don't run out of anything, and so on.
It's one thing to know all the facts about something, and another to bring those facts together into a profession.
The shorter courses I'm not taking for two reasons.
Firstly, they're more expensive. I'm getting married at the end of the year, and we've a trip to Peru planned as our honeymoon next Easter. So an extra thousand or two here or there makes a big difference to us.
Secondly, finding employment is harder with the shorter courses. Now, my own personal knowledge and experience may or may not make up for the brevity of the course - but a potential employer may not realise or even agree with that in an interview. Rather than 2 months course + 4 months job hunting, I'd rather have 5 months course + 1 month's job hunting.
It's a change of career, and if all goes well will be my career for twenty years or more. Given that, a few extra months isn't a big deal.
But if you want employment in that area, you need to either be a very good self-marketer and not worried about lawsuits, or else get a piece of paper from a school. The whole reason for my profession change is being tired of marketing myself, so I need the piece of paper.
It's plain that a lot of the stuff will be known to me already. But the thing about lack of knowledge is that you often don't know you lack it - so I'm sure there'll be things I learn on these courses.
I think also of my experience with cheffing. Anyone can cook - if you can read, you can cook - but cooking a few meals is a different thing to being a chef, who might have to get 12 meals out in eight minutes, or come up with a new dish on the spot because something's run out, or organise the kitchen and ordering so you don't run out of anything, and so on.
It's one thing to know all the facts about something, and another to bring those facts together into a profession.
The shorter courses I'm not taking for two reasons.
Firstly, they're more expensive. I'm getting married at the end of the year, and we've a trip to Peru planned as our honeymoon next Easter. So an extra thousand or two here or there makes a big difference to us.
Secondly, finding employment is harder with the shorter courses. Now, my own personal knowledge and experience may or may not make up for the brevity of the course - but a potential employer may not realise or even agree with that in an interview. Rather than 2 months course + 4 months job hunting, I'd rather have 5 months course + 1 month's job hunting.
It's a change of career, and if all goes well will be my career for twenty years or more. Given that, a few extra months isn't a big deal.