Remember when you could pick a job and stay with it until retirement? When I graduated from high school there were two kinds of graduates - the college-bound and the factory-bound - or at least that's how I thought of it.
Well, there was also the house-bound, but many women were choosing to forgo marriage and babies for awhile - I graduated in the 70s and women were exploring their options more since the 60s revolution that took women out of the home and into the workforce, but I digress! Many of the students I graduated with had parents in local factories and they were quite content to follow the same path into a nice secure union job. Sure it was hard monotonous work, but it was steady and paid well - the only thing better was a government job, the benefits were great! Sure many graduates changed jobs a time or two until they found the right niche, but then it was punching the same time clock until retirement. Not so anymore.
Times have changed since then and factories are few and far between, and even the students who went of to college back then may be out looking for a job at a time in their lives when they should be thinking of retirement. Nothing is certain anymore when it comes to jobs and even government jobs can be risky and without all the benefits they used to offer.
In the past the average worker would possibly go through one career change in his lifetime - if that. Today, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, the average worker can expect to go through between 3 and 5 career changes in his lifetime. One of the best ways to be prepared for this, in my opinion is to take as many classes in your field of expertise as possible and one of the best places to do that is at Granite State College. You will have flexible hours and hundreds of different classes to choose from all over the state and even online. You can take a few classes to round out your degree, or start a whole new career by getting a degree in an entirely different field. Granite State College has many people available to help you decide the best option for your needs and even to show you how to manage the financial aid.
Stop by your local office or go online and look at the classes offered. Even people who have retired from one career can benefit from the classes offered at Granite State-either for enrichment programs or maybe to start a whole new career or possibly a small business. Learning doesn't stop at 65! The more you use your brain the younger it stays!
Well, there was also the house-bound, but many women were choosing to forgo marriage and babies for awhile - I graduated in the 70s and women were exploring their options more since the 60s revolution that took women out of the home and into the workforce, but I digress! Many of the students I graduated with had parents in local factories and they were quite content to follow the same path into a nice secure union job. Sure it was hard monotonous work, but it was steady and paid well - the only thing better was a government job, the benefits were great! Sure many graduates changed jobs a time or two until they found the right niche, but then it was punching the same time clock until retirement. Not so anymore.
Times have changed since then and factories are few and far between, and even the students who went of to college back then may be out looking for a job at a time in their lives when they should be thinking of retirement. Nothing is certain anymore when it comes to jobs and even government jobs can be risky and without all the benefits they used to offer.
In the past the average worker would possibly go through one career change in his lifetime - if that. Today, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, the average worker can expect to go through between 3 and 5 career changes in his lifetime. One of the best ways to be prepared for this, in my opinion is to take as many classes in your field of expertise as possible and one of the best places to do that is at Granite State College. You will have flexible hours and hundreds of different classes to choose from all over the state and even online. You can take a few classes to round out your degree, or start a whole new career by getting a degree in an entirely different field. Granite State College has many people available to help you decide the best option for your needs and even to show you how to manage the financial aid.
Stop by your local office or go online and look at the classes offered. Even people who have retired from one career can benefit from the classes offered at Granite State-either for enrichment programs or maybe to start a whole new career or possibly a small business. Learning doesn't stop at 65! The more you use your brain the younger it stays!
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