Online Studies
Online courses and upgrading are very popular in this area – every time a customer comes into our store – and we asked them what they are doing for work – they normally tell us they are preparing to go back to school or doing some online courses. Upgrading is a huge part in this town – so it doesn’t come as a surprised to me when a long time customer whom we haven’t seen for a long time told us that he is doing his lsat prep online.
I wished that upgrading was as easy for us as it is now in this country. Back home – when you failed your studies – you can’t go online and finish or upgrade as easily. If your parents were well to do – you can go overseas and finish your studies – but if they are not – then you pretty much just can’t finish school. Back then even a secretary – needs to go for a 2 yrs course – before you can get a job and a secretary needed her O’ levels equivalent to Grade 12 here. So yes, folks from the West are very blessed because a customer – who is in his 50s had gone back to school to upgrade and it’s a program that the government supports and when he finishes the upgrade he can apply online and do other courses to specialize in something. I think it’s wonderful to be able to upgrade or finish one’s studies – especially when during your teens you don’t think it is important but only realizes how important it is when you are a lot older – a second chance – i called it.
