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It's all over but the "crying"

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by purpleskys

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Well here it is mid April and I'm all done...there's no more assignments to hand in, there are no more tests to write, and no more oral presentations/reports to be given. Starting next Monday, I begin my workterm at a local dentist's office for five weeks, if I successfully complete that, I will finally be graduated!

It's been a tough year, mentally and financially here, but I couldn't have asked for better moral support than what I received from all my friends and family and the good folks here at TR that have been supportive as well....Thank you :) And a special humble thank you to my husband, Darryl, who has had to listen to the cranky, snooty lady that kicks around here trying to finish off the last of her work, and use him as my "F1" button quite frequently, I couldn't have gotten this far without his love and support.

As soon as my instructors are done putting our final marks together, I will inform anyone who would like to know.

Thanks everyone! :)

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by hal 9000

Don't you know that it's [b]Bad Form[/b] to give a woman who you are not in a relationship with the Clap?

And to do it 3 times is inexcusable. :p

Col 0:-)

by purpleskys

lol, i'm hoping to work with the local person too ;) ...the little one that is going to be training me is very nice and she took the same course i'm taking four years ago...she did her workterm at the same office and they hired her immediately after

by purpleskys

I will be a certified Office Administrator; although, I do hold aspirations of either returning in a few years or doing some online/night courses in accounting

by purpleskys

too true...trying to find a job in a few weeks could be tricky, but I'll be sooo happy when I do, I miss being "gainfully" employed ;) and thanks Col :)

by michael jay

you will be making the big bucks soon, I hope, or at least making your way to that point.

Good going, congrats.

by nicknielsen

Now, in what way do you expect work to be better than school?

Besides the paycheck, of course...

by purpleskys

well...i'm hoping to put my new skills to good use and hopefully get the proud recipient of a decent paycheque ;) ...and honestly, that's enough of the classroom type structure for a bit...no more homework is a huge a plus too :D

by ic-it

From the relief??
That aside, Good on you Purpleskys. I hope the new position works out and is everything and more than you expect. :-)

by purpleskys

and yes, it would be from relief...it's been a good year but a tough year...lots of homework and whatnot...so I'm quite glad to have a break of sorts...today is a bit of a goof-off day, a few folks still have to present their portfolios and write a few finals but that's it

by nexs

Well done! Good job!
BUT, please don't remind me of the dentist! I've got to go back soon and I don't relish the thought of poverty because of them... yet again! Ha!

I wish ye all the best in your new freedom(and not-so-freedom).

by purpleskys

I hear ya there, i gotta spend out a bit here myself as soon as i start earning a living...that's the thing about them eh, can put a person in the poor house pretty quick ;)

by gsg

From "Student" to "Soon to be employed, and filthy rich!"

Congrats!

by dadspad

with your beauty, personality, knowledge, and soon, experience, how can you not be successful?

Of course, you know what hard work will get you? More hard work! :D

Is that the crying part? :)

by purpleskys

although I do have to admit, you're terribly good for my ego :D . I'm figuring that after spending 17 yrs as a floor worker in a factory and over two years as a restuarant worker, I'm actually looking forward to being a sit on my butt kinda job for a while ;)

by purpleskys

Computerized Accounting I 96
Communications-Workplace Apps 78
Document Processing II 93
Database I 88
Organizational Behaviour 81
Office Procedures II 88

No mark yet on Professional Development as I am doing my work term now and will not be assessed on it until the end of May. I'm not 100% content with a couple of them, but Darryl is all over it (of course) ;) ! But yes, I'm still very proud that at the age of 43 I will be graduating from college :D !

by purpleskys

I do admit to not being very good at business communications. I don't do presentations well and sometimes my writing is not all that great either. Darryl did help me with some stuff though and did give me a bit of a kick in the butt...suppose I will have to do some "detention" ;)

by purpleskys

thanks nick :D ...I had expected a higher mark in my simply accounting, but I'll take it ;)

by seanferd

You go girl!

Wait, is that too many exclamation points? I don't thinks so!

:-bd <:o)

by purpleskys

i'm not sure if one can score that high ;) but so far, the office i'm working in is happy with my job performance so i'll keep my fingers crossed :)

by ron k.

In the same amount of time that you've been studying I have done essentially nothing. :D I'm not complaining, just saying.
I wish a wonderful future for you.

by the 'g-man.'

although there are many who have commented on your posts that do not rate your effort or the qualification you get.

All proven in other discussions.

Me, got my paper and it served me well to date.

by santeewelding

Soon as I'm rich, I'll need someone to superintend my offline and online accounting. But, you have to be a whiz. I don't have the time to teach you.

Meantime, take what you do know with a grain of salt -- like a law degree -- and run for office.

by santeewelding

You quibble about my Enterprise procedures?

The other part, the part about getting behind things with insider knowledge -- which she has done: that stands.

________

What doesn't stand is the space I neglected to put between, WHAT, and the exclamation point, a point that no doubt Purple was ready to pounce upon before I corrected it. No matter what anyone says, I now have to watch my step. I have to guess that she KNOWS. If she doesn't, she ought.

by nicknielsen

I would probably have done fairly well on the technical, but Org Behavior and Office Procedures (filing? :p ) would probably kick my butt. Just not interested

by purpleskys

I loved the technical part of it all, if there had been more technical stuff, I would have had way more fun :D ! As for OB, I could burn the book on that I disliked it so much; too much theory for me. OP wasn't just filing, there was proper phone etiquette, itineraies, travel bookings, and a bunch of other stuff that one would never really think of but is relevant to being an office admin.

by hal 9000

There is always the Good Old Fashioned Bribery, or if you are like me just tell them what happens to them if they don't do as I tell them to. :D

I find that terrifying the people generally gets what I require. I still remember walking into a room full of dealers dragging a Stock whip behind me and caring a set of handcuffs and telling the dealers that if they broke any of my machines I would hand cuff them to a hook in the wall and whip them to within a inch of their lives. The guy from the company in Switzerland fell off his chair and then spent the rest of the day trying to get someone to make a complaint about me. Unfortunately [i]for me[/i] he failed so I had to keep working there. :_|

3 Years latter he said that I had an interesting way of dealing with people that not may could pull off, the fact that I taught them better than he could ever hope to do made me sort of useful. :^0

Col 0:-)

by purpleskys

I could find a way to take all their pcs hostage 0:-) but i thought maybe i shouldn't just yet..at some point, i'll let them in on how computer literate i really am (although i'm not a adept as a lot of the folks here)...but for now, i'll stick to answering the phone, filing, and booking appointments with the dental software they have - it's neet learning something new while i'm there if nothing else ;)

by hal 9000

Sounds like some sort of Medical Practice and that's defiantly not a great place to be particularly if they just do Oral stuff. :-q

Should I mention that many years ago when I did Medical I got into no end of trouble for using MS as shorthand for Microsoft? Apparently the highly trained Quacks read it exactly as written and promptly came to the conclusion that all of the Computers had caught Multiple Sclerosis and they warted to know if it was as incurable as the Human Equivalent. I've never used MS since as it still causes me nightmares. But for some strange reason when I used M$ they all knew exactly what I meant. So I still use it today to describe Microsoft it's just easier. :^0

Perhaps PS you could teach one of my clients to use his computer. He expects the thing to just work and do as he wants without him needing to learn how to do things. I've got very good at talking him through things from memory I really have had that much practice helping this guy. OH did I mention that he's a surgeon and a very highly qualified one? He is constantly telling me that the way that he has to do things isn't very Intuitive even though he does call all computers [b]FRED[/b]

F [i]I'll leave that you your imagination[/i]
R [i]Ridiculous[/i]
E [i]Electronic[/i]
D [i]Device[/i]

Not only does he complain that it takes way too long to boot but he wants a Interface that even a Surgeon can use so it has to be usable by a 6 month old. ;)

The QC's here are not any better either. So I'm assuming that all Professionals know next to nothing at all about the computers that they use in their work and I'm never disappointed. That's probably why I like the earthmover's they say it exactly as it is and when peeved off are just as likely to crush the offending piece of hardware that doesn't do as they want with something very big, then come after the person who sold it to them demanding that with the next one you do it right so that they can use it. :0

Col

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