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I just got home from volunteering at the Provo D.I. with Brad Wake. We had fun collecting donations and throwing clothes into the clothing baler. I even got to walk out with a new piece of furniture. It's a DVD rack for Hunter so his media stuff doesn't lie around everywhere. What once took up an entire corner of our livingroom, now takes up only two vertical shelves.

They told me at the D.I. that if I wanted to work there for three months, they would pay for $3000 of a vocational school like EMT training (only $650-700) or even graphic design school. They are looking for "hard workers" to set examples for the "other" workers there. The pay would be $11/hour.

Shall I consider that?

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  1. Julie TSun Mar 09, 08:27:00 PM MDT

    Three months is very do-able and $3000 is a big incentive if only you HAD IT IN WRITING! I'd be tempted if you could stand the smell and the nature of the work. Did you trust the guy who told you this or is it likely to be misunderstood or flaky? I think it would be great to be able to write it down as a "supervisiory position" on a future resume and try to use it to lift people and maybe change some lives.

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  2. NoelleMon Mar 10, 06:29:00 AM MDT

    DO IT!!! That sounds like a great in. I would definitely like it someone offered to pay school for me! If it's a true offer, I'd jump on it. What are you doing right now? nada.

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  3. HeatherMon Mar 10, 01:21:00 PM MDT

    I'm with the girls. Take it and the money for vocational school. Sweet! Let me know how it goes!

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