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Re: New Horizons
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Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:10:43 GMT
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Mike,
Mike Stanley wrote:
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> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:28:14 GMT, "Scott E. Sanburn"
> <ssanburn@cleanweb.net> wrote:
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> > To All,
> >
> > Well, AEI has finally gotten around to paying for my network
> > administration classes, I am going to New Horizons:
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> > http://www.newhorizons.com/
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> > They seem to be a pretty big organization. Does anyone know about this
> > company, or have any experiences with it? Our Systems Administrator in
> > our main office in Madison is going the full course of Administration,
> > but I don't know for sure how much I will be.
> >
> > The class I am attending is a 5 day class, around $2000.00, and I get
> > paid while I am there, so I am not complaining! :)
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> New Horizons is a fairly large chain training place. Our local
> Computer Learning Center recently bought a NH franchise.
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> The training can be really good or really bad, it depends mostly on
> the instructor but also on the quality of your fellow students.
Hmm... Sounds like most of the classes in college that I have had
recently. :)
> I was in training 2 of the last 3 weeks (one accelerated Win2k class
> and one Visual Basic class) and I've probably been to at least 7 other
> classes within the last year. Most were _good_. One was _great_.
> One was a waste of my time. That mix out of 9 classes is probably ok.
>
> Training, along with my recent fairly substantial raise, is why I'm
> satisfied to stay at my current employer for now. Somehow the people
> up top have gotten it that good people should be sent to the training
> they need and want, although they still haven't fully gotten the fact
> that bad people should be shown the door. But it's government, so
> what do you expect?
>
> Back to my comment on the quality. These places are in the business
> of selling training to people with money. You'll see "prerequisites"
> posted for each class but don't think they are strictly enforced. I
> have noticed, especially since this place got the NH franchise, that
> the only requirement is that the student be willing and able to pay.
> So you're almost sure to see a mix of truly qualified professional
> people as well as at least one or two who think that taking a class or
> two is a ticket to a better paying job.
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> I'm all for people doing whatever it takes to better themselves so
> they can get ahead, but I think that a lot of people going through
> these computer/network classes are kidding themselves if they really
> believe they'll go from selling hardware and never touching a computer
> to making $60k/year to administer a real company's network after a
> couple of classes and setting up a tiny peer-to-peer network at home.
> And I think the training centers themselves play a large role in
> leading them to believe this sort of crap.
>
> But again, the training CAN be really good, and even if your
> instructor is the "read out of the book type" or if your class is
> slowed down by students who don't belong in the class asking too many
> low-level questions, you get the materials and you get some hands-on
> practice with stuff, and you get paid to do it, so it's a win-win
> situation all around.
>
> Hope you enjoy it. And I hope you don't come back to a nightmare at
> work like I usually do after being gone for a week.
Thank you, sir! :) I am looking forward to it, especially since I am
fairly new to all of this admin stuff, I have pretty much learned
everything on the fly, since our main office has not been here too much
to support us. AEI in Ann Arbor has 10 stations, a few printers, and
normal network problems. Fortunately, all the employees seem to have a
decent enough understanding of computers to know what to do and not what
to do, but as the office gets bigger, I am sure we will have more
problems. I am finally getting around using Novell enough to lock out
people out of certain things, and to maintain the critical directories,
namely our Autocad menu and the like. I hope the office can get along
without me for a week, I will probably have to come back here afterwards
anyway, since our workload has been crazy for the last couple of months.
(We have 4 projects, all to be shipped out the end of March!)
Thanks for your input, Mike. I hope my class is a good one, and
hopefully, AEI will continue to send me, so I can get more experience!
Scott S.
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