Last week I finally started my schooling measures that were approved by the unemployment agency including one week basic MS Excel 2010, one week basic MS Power Point 2010, one week basic Economics and four weeks of Project Management and MS Project.
Obviously, this is not school anymore. There is no teacher. You use a self-learning program and click through it. Once you are through, you test your knowledge in a preliminary test and if you think it is good or have repeated whatever lesson you found out is not quite there yet, you take a final test. Since this is not a test issued or certified by Microsoft, it is probably worth close to nothing but you get a certificate. People L O V E certificates. Did I tell that you can repeat the final test as often as you like to? That's how much it is worth.
So I finished Excel by Wednsday and took the Power Point test this Monday and since I had time I clicked through basic Outlook as well. I am going to come out of this schooling institute loaded with certificates and with a cramp in my right index finger.
To use my time wisely, I also started typing exercises with a freeware just to keep busy. Maybe I will master blind typing while I am here! And I still have time for my blog which is good because next time I am going to tell you about reinvention and I am now a writer slash editor as well. Cool, hu?
