[NABS-L] Career transition and questions about non-traditional students and the the role that nabs can play

[Harry Staley]

Good afternoon;

NABs actually has quite a few of non-traditional students involved. I am one who is working full time while going to school full time. The solutions that you will need will depend highly on what your skills are. Working full time while in school has some interesting challenges that require that you have an extremely strong mastery of time management and figuring out techniques that can make you as efficient as possible. Some things that I have done is squeeze out every minute of time in my day to fit in what I like to call opportunistic studying. I love things like the Pomodoro technique, spaced repetition systems such as flash cards, and also taking one class at first to figure out the scheduling flex abilities that your employer will will actually work with. You can feel free to contact me directly to chat.
One thing that NABs can help you with is advocacy with your DSS office if needed. When I went to school the first time there was no DSS office to either help or hinder you.
Harry Staley
330-718-1876
hstaley at nfbtx.org

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On Aug 12 2018, at 9:51 am, Keri Svendsen via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hey is this Carlos from the zone, Anible's friend and all that?
> I think this is you. lol
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> On 8/11/2018 8:47 PM, Carlos Montas via NABS-L wrote:
> > Good evening to you all on the list. My name is Carlos Montas and I wanted to post a question about career transitions and going back to school as an older student. I would like to know what do you all think are the keys to being a successful student in todays environment? I would like to know about the keys to being successful going to school on line? I would also like to know if you had to choose would you continue to work and go to school, or would focus on school full time?
> > In my situation I am wanting to go back to school to get my my masster's in Public Adminestration. My career has focused on working in the field of vocational rehabilatation. My idea is to work on more systemic issues in the public policy in the areas of improving the over all vocational rehabilatation system.
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> > Finally how can nabs help the non-traditional student?
> > Sincerely,
> > Carlos Montas
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