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Last week I returned to my old alma mater….The community college I graduated from back in the 1970’s to address the senior class of my old major, Medical Assisting. With the way jobs and careers are today people need the best edge in order to succeed in their trained profession and I felt I could give back to the class by sharing what I had done for the last 30 years with my career. I received a 2 year associates degree back then in Medical Assisting and turned it into a B.A. degree several years later in Gerontology.
The school looked the same as I had left it so many years ago but the student faces and atmosphere were very different. Many of the students were older and had many more responsibilities than I had back then. Some were parents of young children, some were adults returning to school to tool themselves into a new career and some were just educating themselves to grow their knowledge in the field.
I was well received and felt I gave them some good food for thought about their lives and what direction they could take them but most of I I tried to impart to them that education never goes to waste and whatever they gleaned from school could never be taken away from them; it could only help them in life no matter what age they were.
It was an eye opening and enjoyable experience; and I was asked to return next semester to do a repeat performance!
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