Have a great Memorial Day Weekend!

I hope everyone has a great Memorial Day weekend.

This photo is by Beverly & Pack on Flickr.

I am thinking some nontraditional students and advisors have the weekend off, and may be enjoying being with loved ones.

Other older nontraditional students may have lost a loved one recently or in the past. May your Memorial Day weekend be filled with good new memories.

Do you have a relative or parent who is a veteran? Share your memories, stories, or information below as a comment. Or perhaps Memorial Day is a day when you visit your relative's resting places.

My father was at the Bikini Atoll for atom bomb tests. Sometimes I think about what he must have thought witnessing that. What an experience.

My good wishes go out to all the families of nontraditional students this weekend, and of course to all the brave veterans, alive and dead, who fought for this country.

Betsyanne
Former Nontraditional Student (WKU)
and Student of Pottery, online revenue, and SEO today.

Some Nontrad links:  
The Nontrad site and blog
Join Nontrads on Facebook
Nontrads on Yahoo
Nontrads on Twitter

Some great advice from a Nontrad Yahoo Group member

Some great advice from a nontraditional student - 7 tips

This photo of St. Aidan's College is by John Phillips and has a CC license.

Amanda is a nontraditional student who is a member of the Yahoo Nontrads Group.

She wrote a new member who is going back to school, and gave some great advice to her today. It is advice that all nontraditional students can use.

Here are some of her tips:

#1.  Learn to say no sometimes. Just because you are a student, that doesn't mean you have lots of free time. Often, it means you don't!


#2. Guard your study time, because it is important.


#3. Learn to lower your housekeeping standards - it's necessary sometimes. She made a schedule for this too.


#4. Go on autopilot and don't feel guilty about it sometimes too.


#5. Try using different kinds of planners, whatever kind is easy for you to use.


#6. Keep organized... color-coding can help too.


#7. Keep easy-to-prepare food on hand to save time.

I love these tips.

Thanks, Amanda!


Betsyanne
Current and Former Nontraditional Student
Current: Ceramics, art, and online selling
Former: Education.

Some Nontrad links:

The Nontrad site and blog

Join Nontrads on Facebook

 Nontrads on Yahoo

 Nontrads on Twitter

Job Finding Resources for Nontraditional Students and others

This is for all you just-graduated nontraditional students out there.

I have found some great job resources that I will share with you. Some internet and job-seeking savvy nontraditional students will already know about these.

Others may have other great links. If you do, please share them with other nontraditional students by leaving these good links as a comment at the end of this posting. Thank you!

Here are a few of the job-seeking links I like and some links that look worth exploring too:

#1. Linked In - I have already seen messages from groups I have joined (think: Alumni groups) about jobs. These jobs may not even be listed in papers or online. These people may want somebody like you. Here is the Linked In Link.

(scroll down for more sites)

#2. The official U.S. Government Jobs site.

#3. The Monster Job Search Site.

#4. The Career Builder Site.

#5. The Internet Inc. Job Search Pagehas job search categories based on what kind of job you want to research.

And here is my Job Search Pagepage I made for Kentucky.

-Betsyanne Current (art lessons) and former (teacher ed program at WKU)nontraditional student.

Some Nontrad links: The Nontrad site and blog

Join Nontrads on Facebook

Nontrads on Yahoo

Nontrads on Twitter

Please excuse the sometimes weird look of this posting. I am just now learning how to post using an iPad, and it is a lot harder to format for me so far. I hope to get better at it later. :-)