Coursera $100 off yearly - Coursera Plus membership

[Vle045]

This discount has been extended through the end of January. I think this might be a good way to go for me at this time. I just can’t seem to devote myself to any degree program right now. Aside from the Google Certificates that are available, any other must haves?

[rachel83az]

I think that depends on your career goals. The professional certificates from Meta (Facebook) might be good if you want to go into social media marketing, for instance. If you want to earn some money on the side, ASU's TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) certificate might be useful.

[Vle045]

I think that depends on your career goals. The professional certificates from Meta (Facebook) might be good if you want to go into social media marketing, for instance. If you want to earn some money on the side, ASU's TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) certificate might be useful.

I actually just started the social marketing one. 
Almost anything goes!  Might seem strange, but as an “Administrative Assistant”, I have had to be a jack of all trades over the years.

[rachel83az]

Do you want to continue to be an administrative assistant? If not, I would also use the Coursera subscription to explore other topics that you might enjoy more. Like, you might find that, though you dislike math, you like being a data analyst and making presentations based on the numbers that the data scientists & engineers come up with.

[Vle045]

Interesting example. I am completely self taught on the technical stuff that I use. Mostly Excel and Sheets. I figured out how to create several inter-related sheets that track and extract info from one single sheet. I pull in all the data that is relevant to my department (there’s a ton of it) and track it all in one place. Then I made separate sheets (workbooks) with various tabs for each department/team that extracts only the info they need so it is not too overly cluttered. I keep basic headings/colors the same throughout so that it is consistent for those that might need more than one of the sheets. And they all have clickable links to whatever they refer to. It’s all super easy and fun for me… I am sure there are better, easier, more useful things I could learn. And I think it’s funny how I hate math, but I can figure out excel formulas. That’s almost like Algebra. LOL

[origamishuttle]

Interesting example.  I am completely self taught on the technical stuff that I use.  Mostly Excel and Sheets.  I figured out how to create several inter-related sheets that track and extract info from one single sheet.  I pull in all the data that is relevant to my department (there’s a ton of it) and track it all in one place.  Then I made separate sheets (workbooks) with various tabs for each department/team that extracts only the info they need so it is not too overly cluttered.  I keep basic headings/colors the same throughout so that it is consistent for those that might need more than one of the sheets.  And they all have clickable links to whatever they refer to.  It’s all super easy and fun for me… I am sure there are better, easier, more useful things I could learn.  And I think it’s funny how I hate math, but I can figure out excel formulas.  That’s almost like Algebra.  LOL

Sounds like you're already a programmer. I bet you would enjoy coding / web dev.

[rachel83az]

Interesting example.  I am completely self taught on the technical stuff that I use.  Mostly Excel and Sheets.  I figured out how to create several inter-related sheets that track and extract info from one single sheet.  I pull in all the data that is relevant to my department (there’s a ton of it) and track it all in one place.  Then I made separate sheets (workbooks) with various tabs for each department/team that extracts only the info they need so it is not too overly cluttered.  I keep basic headings/colors the same throughout so that it is consistent for those that might need more than one of the sheets.  And they all have clickable links to whatever they refer to.  It’s all super easy and fun for me… I am sure there are better, easier, more useful things I could learn.  And I think it’s funny how I hate math, but I can figure out excel formulas.  That’s almost like Algebra.  LOL

That's data analyst work. If you like doing that, I would definitely look into data analytics. Some of the programs are quite math-heavy because they're really preparing you to be a data engineer, but not all of them are like that. You might have to do a little searching to find one that focuses more on the Excel side of things. It's there, I promise.

Data analyst's average salary is around $62k: https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job...yst/Salary
Administrative assistant average salary is $40k: https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job...ant/Salary

Or, as origamishuttle suggests, you might be interested in web design/programming. You don't need to deal with math much, if at all, as a web designer/programmer. 

Web designer average salary is $53k: https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job...ner/Salary
Web programmer average salary is almost $56k: https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job...mer/Salary

[carebear_007]

Just in case it hasn't already been mentioned, if you have an American Express card, you might be eligible to receive two free months of Coursera Plus. The offer is valid from October 15, 2021 to February 28, 2022. 

https://www.coursera.support/s/article/T...uage=en_US

[Vle045]

Thanks rachel83az. Interesting information. I don’t know why I have this mental blockage with math. Even back in high school. I could easily make change in my head. I worked drive thru at Burger King. We didn’t have the fancy registers they have now. I had to figure it out myself from paper receipts. Take those same numbers and put them on a worksheet, and it takes me a lot longer to do. Might have been easier if I learned the “new math”. LOL

[rachel83az]

Thanks rachel83az.  Interesting information.  I don’t know why I have this mental blockage with math.  Even back in high school.  I could easily make change in my head.  I worked drive thru at Burger King.  We didn’t have the fancy registers they have now.  I had to figure it out myself from paper receipts.  Take those same numbers and put them on a worksheet, and it takes me a lot longer to do.  Might have been easier if I learned the “new math”.  LOL

I just got an email about a Data Analytics info session from Oakton. I thought you might be interested in possibly attending.