yay!

nobody@vox.com(arbed) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:35:21 -0400

I just got the final official approval to take my course! I'm a student again! A student who just happens to also have a full-time job! Hey, wait, that last part wasn't so exciting...

I'm a happy girl.

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i've got some learnin' to do

nobody@vox.com(arbed) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:03:46 -0400

For my license, I have to complete a minimum of 30 continuing education hours over a span of two years. My first renewal is coming up in August and I have about 13.5 credits racked up. Senior Associates and Principals have it pretty easy in terms of credits because they can get ten or fifteen at a time just by going to a two- or three-day conference. It's not so easy for us little guys. I won't go into why I have so few because I'll get ticked off at my company. There is a sort of fast way to get the credits, but it involves two days of boring seminar crap that really does me no good (this seminar is offered in lots of cities every few months and judging by the crap they offer, it's amazing they qualify for the credits - and you know the people there are only there as a last ditch resort for their credits). There is an online component as well, which is free if you attend the conference, but you can access it by paying if you don't do the conference. I'm currently debating between signing up for the online portion and signing up for a relatively new site that I discovered. The second site looks much more interesting and I would actually have access to it all year long, so technically, there should still be courses available for me to take after August, when this renewal is taken care of. Either way, it will keep me occupied for a while.

I like to keep myself in courses of various kinds. It keeps my mind busy and keeps my learning skills up to par. I haven't done anything since my license two years ago and I'm feeling the itch. I've decided to take the plunge and go for my CEBS (Certified Employee Benefit Specialist) designation. I've talked about it for years but have never bothered because something else always came up. For various reasons (I won't bore you with them) it's now a good time to get into it. It will take me roughly four years if I take two courses a year. I plan on taking the full eight courses because even though I don't specifically deal in pensions, the full designation will always look better and give me more of an advantage. So, I will hopefully get the necessary approval this week and will send my paperwork off shortly. In Canada, the exams are only offered in June and December, so while I'll be starting with it in the fall, I'll take a bit of extra time for the first one so that I can get a feel for how it runs; I'll do my first exam in June 2009. After that, it should stay at a steady pace of at least one exam every six months until I finish. I have a feeling it will go by very fast.

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it was an accident, I swear

nobody@vox.com(arbed) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:10:34 -0500

I may never use it, but I just inadvertently found out that you can rearrange your firefox tabs. That led me to trying another, more obvious method (although it's not like I was even trying the first time) of doing it. What a day, what a day. I learned not one, but two ways to move my tabs around. Always learning, kids, always learning.

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a mind is a beautiful thing to taste

yay!

i've got some learnin' to do

it was an accident, I swear