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Google Classroom<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Week 1<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Playing Spent – See what it’s like to survive on a shoestring budget:<\/p>\n Can you survive a month?<\/a><\/p>\n Take an interest inventory and see what you might enjoy as a career:<\/p>\n What interests me?<\/a><\/p>\n Now that I have an idea, I should look at what careers might interest\u00a0me:<\/p>\n List 1<\/a><\/p>\n List 2<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Week 2-3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Let’s get some research done!<\/p>\n Have you decided upon a career? \u00a0If not, got back to those career lists.<\/p>\n Look deeply into your chosen field.<\/p>\n What kind of education do you need? \u00a0Trade school? \u00a0Apprenticeship? \u00a0College? \u00a0Graduate School? \u00a0PHD?<\/p>\n What does someone in your field actually do?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fill in the boxes in your education and career timeline. \u00a0Make sure you put the links to the exact site where you found the information.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As for education, there are many options.<\/p>\n If you are looking for vocational training (does not require college or a 4-year degree) then you will want to begin looking here:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.rwm.org\/north-carolina\/<\/a><\/p>\n This site is specifically for North Carolina, however you may need to branch out. \u00a0Try to stick to the rwm.org site or its links. \u00a0At the bottom of the page is a list of career and technical schools. \u00a0You will have to do a bit of extra research on these schools to ensure they can actually get you the training and skills you need.<\/p>\n Here is a more general vocational lookup:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.rwm.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n College look-up:<\/p>\n NCES website<\/a><\/p>\n College scorecard lookup:<\/p>\n College Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n Internship and post-secondary program lookup:<\/p>\n Dept of Education lookup<\/a><\/p>\n Fill in the skills\/education portion of your\u00a0education and career timeline.<\/p>\n Finally, fill in the actual timeline portion of your timeline. \u00a0Go year by year, and describe your goals!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Week 4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Now that you have a *very* good idea of what is required of someone in your chosen career, it is time for you to build a resume! \u00a0You will find a resume template in our google classroom. \u00a0This will give you a good outline as to what your resume should look like. \u00a0Take a look at this quick video about resumes just to give you some ideas about the purpose of resumes and what employers might wish to see:<\/p>\n Resumes<\/a><\/p>\n Week 5<\/p>\n Now that we have our jobs, we should have figured out our monthly income. \u00a0It’s time to start truly building our budget!<\/p>\n First, you need to find a place to live.<\/p>\n RentVsBuying<\/a><\/p>\n Are you going to rent, or buy? \u00a0There are pros and cons to each. \u00a0Fill out your renting our buying worksheet. \u00a0Then use one of these sites to find an actual place to live:<\/p>\n www.zillow.com<\/a><\/p>\n www.trulia.com<\/a><\/p>\n www.homefinder.com<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now let’s think about eating. \u00a0Fill out your food worksheet, and then head on over to lowes foods (or another grocery store of your choice) and figure out how much you can expect to pay for groceries each month!<\/p>\n Groceries<\/a><\/p>\n Lowe’s Foods<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Google Apps login: Google Classroom Week 1 Playing Spent – See what it’s like to survive on a shoestring budget: Can you survive a month? Take an interest inventory and see what you might enjoy as a career: What interests me? Now that I have an idea, I should look at what careers might … Continue reading My success<\/span>