You can always work in a private grade school. Many of those people aren't even certified by the state. Though I think they are abandoning that philosophy of hiring anyone. Still might be worth it.potownrob wrote:I earned a B.A. Spanish language w/ French minor, then went directly to graduate school for an M.A.T. Spanish degree to teach Spanish (and possibly French and even Italian); ended up abandoning the M.A.T. due to the combination of being lazy, not wanting to read a bunch of books about literature (the final test before getting the degree and needed to get certified was to discuss and answer questions about 20+ books mostly literature books - I was good at linguistics, not literature and what goes with it or history, and they wouldn't let me use books on Spanish and Romance linguistics), and being busy with work while working on the degree.
My current jobs do not require even a high school diploma - there are high school students and probably people who never finished high school who have worked here - at the hotel you can work your way up within the hotel or within the owners' empire of hotels and restaurants, so i've had people who should (IMO) be scrubbing floors and toilets as managers and supervisors. Contrary to popular belief, very few hotel workers (at least around here) have degrees in hospitality nor have they studied it at all, and I don't know of any hotel managers who have taken courses on hotel management or even basic hospitality courses. Everything I know about my job, I learned on the job. At CVS, it's the same thing of people who either worked their way up within the stores to become supervisors and managers, or they came in with no experience and just fit the personality of a CVS supervisor or manager. CVS does train its managers and supervisors (albeit often not too well), and the regular clerks also get some basic training, both hands-on training and some reading and assessments. Not that I'm that smart, but very few people who I could characterize as smart have made it as managers at either of my jobs, from what I've seen.
edit: i'm 33
I'll answer this question though. I finished high school and am currently working on a bachelors degree in Computer Networking. It's at a local state school where tuition is....reasonable.
I'm in the 18-24 age group.