Training vs Education: Who Has the Time?

Training vs Education: Who Has the Time?

Depends how bad you want it, right now, I putting in 50+ hours a week as a packaging engineer, plus going to school full time (Project Management, it was a situation) I was laid off and between jobs I was could not stand it and decided to go back to school, over half of the credits transfered.

I figured that as soon as I enrolled I would get a job and thats what happened, and if it did, which it did. I decided if that happens my job would come first....and it did, problem was I was pulling a 3.9+ GPA and tried to keep that up also........got sick, flu on top of everything else, barely made it through the semester. I went back to my original plan of job first, school second...

But I'm going to finish...really excited about it. btw....I'm down to a 3.5 something GPA, which I can easily maintain. (easily....may not seem that way at the time )

Each year we have a training budget establish, we have a training plan and even a really cool Organizational Training Tool (for planning and tracking our training). In the end, I think it's all for show as the budget gets whacked year after year and very little real training occurs.

To be fair, there are small training courses available (videos and such) and occassionally we can get approval of something more significant.