Looking for Recommendations/Advice for Newbie

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Amen to most of this, It's important to do a trial run with one of the courses at Straighterline. They have simulations you can try, putting money into something you haven't experienced or know will work for you may be a little hasty. We are all here to help one another so ask lots of questions. An example is Straigherline has a Western Civilization course that gets you 3 college credits and costs about $140 if you can do it in a month! if not you pay another $99 dollars as you work through it. However you could also find (with our help) some free resources that would allow you to take the Western Civilization CLEP test and get the same amount of credits for $100 and work at your own pace to do it.
I'm currently working on U.S history 1 in this way with some help from(this forum) and Instant cert and other resources too as are many others here. I've got two jobs and I run my own business and attend Excelsior on a half time basis so I'm busy but next week I take the test and hope to pass it all told for about $150 including my materials Its taken me a few months to get focused but you can do it too!