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[raleighliving]

Update: Slow Times Ahead

So this isn't gonna be about my city or cool things in it (technically I'll talk about Wake Tech but it's not really the focus here), but instead, it's gonna be more personal. I won't reveal anything concrete enough to guess the author here but hopefully, you'll read this anyway.

Posts are gonna slow down a bit (Funny I know, with my multi-month gap in content) because I am going back to college.

Community college specifically, I'll be attending Wake Tech (hopefully) starting this Summer semester. I've applied for FAFSA, some scholarships, and I'm waiting for my good ol' High School to send me a copy of my transcripts from 8+ years ago.

"RL," I hear you ask inquisitively, "You're such a well-spoken alphagigaomega Chad. You never completed uni? Are you just a poseur?"

To that, I have to say thank you and yes. I never completed University because of some poor life choices I'd made surrounding my life. Nothing like drugs or alcohol, but I flunked out of my junior year university and let some friends convince me to join them in an endeavor that both helped and hurt me in the long run.

Now, after a series of half-formed ideas and this blog being the longest one to stick around I got the idea to go back and try again. I'm still working on some of them, and I'll definitely continue writing this blog for fun if nothing else because it's oddly cathartic, but I've reached a point in my life where I definitely need something larger to set me apart from other candidates in the career pool and every inch I get is something I'll need to help.

So why wake tech? Why transfer when I'd completed 3/4ths of a degree already? Why the sudden urge to do this now?

Most of these are related to money. My previous school was too expensive, if I get all the financial aid I applied for my courses will be essentially free, and if I get even an Associates my earning potential becomes much higher than it currently is.

Additionally, this gives me a chance to kinda restart. After speaking with some friends who went to the same degree, their diploma didn't really take them as far as they would've liked. Either working fields totally divorced from their dream job or doing nothing to move them up the corporate ladder.

Wake Tech Community College is a venerated institution that has graduates working in numerous fields, and I did enough generic credits that could transfer to my new degree that getting an Associates hopefully won't take too long. My goal is to finally achieve something, not spend another few dozen years of my life doing nothing and going nowhere.

Lately I've been feeling kind of like a loser, looking back at my past mistakes. I think everyone does that every once in a while but I've been looking to course-correct for a while now and it took a while to get to this point but at least I'm finally taking the first few baby steps.

I don't know what'll happen next, but hopefully, I'll get my associates and pivot into something helpful. Education looks fun but that'd also require some additional certs and time input to become viable.

TL;DR: I'm gonna probably post slower than I already have been because I'm gonna dive headfirst into trying to improve myself and I don't know what's gonna happen but wish me some goddamn luck cause I could really goddamn use some.

[dr-archeville]

A New Partnership Between Wake County and Wake Tech Aims to Help People Climb the Economic Ladder

“This gives folks an opportunity to learn a trade, earn income while they are doing it, and ultimately make a better life for themselves.”

Unemployment in Wake County is among the lowest in the nation (3 percent), but the county ranks 95th out of the 100 largest U.S. metros for economic mobility — meaning nearly everyone has a job, but few people are moving up in the ranks.

Wake Works, a new partnership between Wake Tech and the county government, hopes to change that.  The program, which offers tuition-free trade education through a salaried apprenticeship program, aims to not only help residents get a foot in the door but also to take a step up the economic ladder.

“We have folks who are working to make a better life for themselves and would benefit from additional job training but may not be in a position to quit their jobs and go back to school when they have to support themselves or their families,” Commissioner Matt Calabria told the INDY.  “This gives folks an opportunity to learn a trade, earn income while they are doing it, and ultimately make a better life for themselves.”

The Wake County Board of Commissioners unanimously agreed to contribute up to $500,000 to cover the cost of tuition ($1,216 a semester for in-state students with a full course schedule), fees, books, tools, and uniforms for students enrolled in the program next fall.

Wake Tech will cover at least $300,000 in start-up costs and launch a marketing campaign.  If enrollment exceeds capacity, Calabria says, the program will seek additional funding through grants and private partnerships.

Right now, Wake Tech has about 200 apprenticeships focusing on trades and manufacturing.  Wake Works will add more than 300 apprenticeships, expanding to include health care and hospitality.

Apprentices will spend most of the program getting more than 2,000 hours of on-the-job experience in addition to 144 hours of classroom instruction.  Starting salaries will be about $24 an hour, triple North Carolina’s $7.25 minimum wage.

The goal is “removing barriers” to education, Wake Tech vice president Matt Smith told county commissioners last week.  “We exist to make sure that anyone in Wake County that wants an education can get an education.  Our enemy is barriers.”

Those barriers tend to be systemic, bolstered by racial, gender, and economic inequality.

Commissioner James West pointed out the highest concentration of Wake Tech students lives in the 27610 zip code, which encompasses Southeast Raleigh.  The problem, he said, is that “the folks that normally need [this support] the most do not normally actively participate in our city process.”

To that end, Wake Works will try to actively recruit minorities and women who are underrepresented in the trades.  Enrollment will be first-come, first-serve, with no age limits.

Consumers in the Triangle may also benefit, Calabria says, as there are “critical labor shortages that are holding our businesses back.”

“They are the people who build our houses, who wire our offices, who weld our machines, who unclog our drains,” Calabria says.  “If you don’t have someone who can answer the phone when your air conditioning goes out, and it’s 95 degrees out this summer, you’re going to be waiting for a while.”  

Contact Raleigh news editor Leigh Tauss at [email protected].

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[milujeme-baseball]

NJCAA: Wake Tech s Čapkou a Novotným na soupisce vstoupilo do nové sezony foto © Twitter @waketechsports V USA již začala nová baseballová sezona pro vysokoškolské týmy. A protože i český baseball má několik jmen na soupiskách těchto týmů, tak pro vás tuto soutěž budeme bedlivě sledovat.

[hamzaaslam]

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[dansesleftbicep]

Girl from Boulder i sat next to you on the plane

aND I DIDNT ASK YOUR NAME. WE LIVE LIKE 40 MINUTES AWAY FROM EACHOTHER AND I WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND.

[emmc68]

I'm going back to school today. This will be the first time in 4 years I'm in a classroom. It doesn't even feel real

[linosmelendi]

Time to be all anti social again in the student lounge

[daysofthvnder]

Went to see an adviser today and was finally accepted to school. Also, officially registered for classes. I’m going back to school and I’m so excited and proud of myself for how much I’ve changed in just a few weeks.