Thank you for all your support while I decide on this class for a possible career change. I may not have been clear so here is my last attempt. I am considering a part-time career in personal training. I have thought about this for years and have loved being in a gym environment. So the opportunity at my local community college came up to take a hands-on 9 week class that would results in a certification (if the exams is passed)
When I researched, the class I came across some negative reviews. When I called some gyms to find out if they heard of or accepted this particular certification, many said no.
I expressed these concerns to my husband, who is fully supportive of this class and my new career move, but he still wants me to do it. He thinks getting out on a Saturday for two months would be good for me, particularly the hands-on setting.
I went to an info session and was gung ho, until I did my own research.
The class is costly but DH looks at it as an investment in my future and says he would be really disappointed if I didn't do it.
I still don't feel right about only a few gyms accepting this accreditation. It is a national accreditation and the only classroom setting. My other option is to do a crash weekend course, 3 days for the more acceptable accreditations.
I have three hours to register.
Any thoughts?
The class would be fun, and while no job prospects are guarenteed I need a respectable credential.
If you are contimplating it this much...you want to do it! So do it...you have the support you need!
I would do the crash course. Its accepted more and you won't waste 2 months of Saturdays for nothing. Regardless of what classes you take, there is still no guarantee of a job after. So the crash course makes more sense to me, but I didn't read your prior question so I may be missing something. Good luck in whatever you decide to do. =)
If you are doing this to increase you ability to get a job in the field, I would get the accreditation that is accepted most places. It sounds like the other certification will be mostly useless if no one recognizes it.
Unless you are doing it strictly for your own personal enjoyment and you don't really care about the job prospects. Then take the course that you think will be the most fun.
How on Earth is a 3 day crash course more widely accepted than a 2 month, hands on training? That's really odd.
If you found out that the weekend course will better your chances to get hired, but the other course is more hands on, do both!
Then, when you finish, take the crash course. You will be so much more marketable when you have both and you will be so much more qualified and confident. I think confidence is an issue, because you keep trying to justify not taking this 1st step. Doing the hands on will help you be more confident. Crash course will help you be marketable. You need both.
Register for the class. Put on foot in front of the other. Walk toward your goal.
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Well I just wanted to say that I think it is awesome that your husband is supporting you on this. How many husbands would want you to go to a class, on a Saturday, for two months? I say take the class, and use it as a tool to learn things, then take the crash weekend course next if you have to. The Saturday class can just act as a brush up course, and maybe you can learn a few things that you don't know already, that will help you if you take the crash weekend course. If your husband is OK with this, and the cost, and the time away from the family on Saturdays, it sounds like everything is in your favor. Maybe you will find the job of your dreams that DOES accept this class. Don't put your eggs all in one basket, just by knowing about the other few gyms that don't accept it. Good luck to you.
I would do the crash course with the acceptable accreditation. It is done faster so that you can begin working sooner, and it will open up many more doors than the other course. In this economy it just doean't make much sense to do the other one.
Good Luck with whatever you choose!
Look at the hours the classes hve. If you would be going on Saturdays for 8 or 9 weeks, 2 hours a day for the one class or 6 hours a day for 3 days for the other class, that is the same time frame. But one has the better credentials. The trainers at the gym I used to go to would also continue their training. They could then charge more since they were more advanced and experienced.
Friends of mine in the personal training arena. Have various accreditations in assorted things. Most of them have business on the side and don't rely on a formal gym setting for the bulk of their work. They network like crazy and offer special group things to different unexpected groups for a resonable price. It is really a nice deal for them and the participants.
Make the decision that makes the most sense toward your end result.
Register for the course that gives you the more widely accepted credential!
There's just NO question --that's the course to take. Does your DH want you do the first course you came across, or the course that might actually help you get a real job?
YOU are the one who will be doing the course work, taking any exams, and hunting for jobs. Not him. Unless he's going to be doing the work, sitting in the exam with you and presenting your (less effective) credentials to employers....Take the course you know will be better for your job prospects.
It's very unsupportive --and extremely ill-informed -- of him to pressure you to take a course you know, for a fact, is not going to advance you. Why does he say HE would be disappointed in you? Why is he so invested personally in which course you take? Does he support other choices you make or is he always pushing you to do things his way in other aspects of life too? I'd ask myself if he's going to be supportive when you go out and get a job in this field or if he'll then find another reason to say, "You should say yes to this job here and not this one there, or I'll be disappointed...."
Now might be a time to examine why he's so interested and personally invested in what is your well-researched, carefully examined choice in which he did not participate.
