Day 2 & Thoughts on Day 1

Up early once again - not a bad thing.  I'm able to sign in to my online class (Human Resource Management) and get started on it.  Two classes today (Marketing & Small Business Management) and I'm ready to get them rolling.

Yesterday's class (Business Law) went really well.  Full roster - 24 students and one really fun teacher.  She used to practice law and has taught it for the past 13 years.  She uses a lot of stories so I think I'll get a lot out of it.

Students were really happy I had the office open for the afternoon.  Had quite a few coming in to use the computers and the copy machine.  You see all kinds at a community college - new students right out of high school, some coming back after not doing so well at the university level, and quite a few like me - non-traditional, older students, starting again after many years to find a new profession when the old one dried up or to finish what they started so long ago.  

It can be scary, after being out of school for over 30 years, to come back and start all over.  But I am having so much fun and I love learning again.  And I'm finding out that I'm darn good at it :)

Taking my Cricket (machine that cuts things out for me) to cut out the 50 letters that make up the new name of the office: Center for Workforce Development & Entrepreneurship.  My hand would be cramping cutting those out by hand!! LOL!  I have to design the new board in the hallway and the first step is getting the new name out there.  Transition - interesting, confusing, and full of learning new things and people.

I hope you all have a great day ... I plan on it.  

Peace ~

1st Day Back - Early Morning

7:45 on Monday morning - alarm is about ready to go off but I've been up since 6:15.  Must be anticipation of the new day, new classes, and working in a somewhat new office.

I've worked in the Career Center at Kansas City Kansas Community College since June 2013 as either a student worker or a summer worker.  But after July 24th of this year, both my director and office secretary have retired.  The office is being taken over by the Business Division and has been renamed: Center for Workforce Development and Entrepreneurship (CWD&E - as I so fondly call it).

New management, new ideas, new hours (not even sure what they are at the moment) ... and then me, the only "old" person from the "old" office.  I seriously think that's why they kept me around, but I'm okay with that. I'm used to the way the office works and hopefully that will be helpful in the transition stages.

I start my next to last semester at KCKCC and really excited about it.  I am taking Business Law I, Human Resource Management, Small Business Management, and Marketing.  I'm working towards my AAS, Business Administration degree and should graduate in May, 2015.  This is all lecture classes this semester (3 on-ground and 1 online) so it will be a lot of work, written and reading.  

So if I slack off writing on my blog or my posts start to sound educational, that is the reason!

I hope you all have a great week and when this day is over, I'll let you know how it went.

Peace ~