Thanks for reading this series regularly over the past couple of years. The distance-based education supposedly is ideal for people working full-time or people with little mouths to feed who may not have time to go to school full-time. The university recommends 11-15 hours per week per course, not including extra time for assignments and exams. My mindset will be re-focussing as I learn new business and money concepts. I'll feel things out with my first course, but due to the intense individualized study of this degree program, I may not be able to give this column the same priority. As with everything I do, I'm approaching the new venture with cautious optimism. By roughly 2012, completing this should open new doors. I'm hoping I can accomplish it without a new student loan as I just paid back my original loan last summer. This will take roughly three years, doing one or two courses at a time. I've heard positive things about the university, although doing a degree in management by my lonesome seems unusual. For those of you unaware of it, Athabasca University is a dominantly distance education institution headquartered in Athabasca with campuses in Edmonton and Calgary. Lloydminster, for as long as I decide to stick around here, will be my "campus". Ironically, numbers are not my forte, so I could be off to a rough start. To get into the nuts and bolts of the recession situation. In a time of recession, it's good to know how the economic system works. As I write this, I just received confirmation of registration with my first course: Intro to Financial Accounting, and I've just gotten myself set up in the online business school. I'm starting a degree in management with Athabasca University's School of Business. Yes folks, the Newfoundland Inkslinger is a wild and woolly college student once again. Instead of merely reminiscing about my Animal House days, I've decided to give myself a second chance and make it reality. Returning to school has always intrigued me, but then opportunities came about and I was propelled up North for a few months, and later landed in Lloydminster, where my Western adventure truly began. Soon after watching the Booster newspaper press throttle down for the final time several months back, I decided to grab my potentially dire situation by the horns and do something I meant to do since graduating from journalism college in 2004: I'll start by adding some thoughts to what was explored in May's column. I deal with ink regularly in my day job in the Sheetfed press room, and "inkslinger" is a synonym for writer. The Newfoundland-themed column series originated as "Navigating the Issues." I renamed it to its present incarnation after a year or so. Two years ago this month, I began writing a little column for the Booster.
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