Negative Reviews of Straighterline ?

[sanantone]

I like Straighterline. I actually paid $200 more to complete a Uexcel for A&P I and II because the SL courses had too many quizzes, but most SL courses have a reasonable number of quizzes. Other than having to wait 10 to 15 minutes for an available representative a couple of times for a scheduled exam, I haven't had any issues with ProctorU. Their employees aren't always the most professional. They're like the Walmart of online proctoring services.

Now, on to Study.com. Others might disagree, but I don't think Study.com is designed for adult learners, especially for people who work long hours. First of all, since I'm a very fast learner, I feel like Study.com forces me to move at a snail's pace. I don't need to be spoon-fed information in small bits. Second of all, I work very long hours, and I have a lot of things to do on my days off. I don't have time to binge-watch hundreds of Study.com videos and complete over 100 quizzes.

Thirdly, I have a very short attention span. I have a tendency to think in total time spent than time spent on each unit of activity because total time is all that matters in the end. Watching a boring, hour-long video is the same as watching 12 boring, five minute videos. Study.com videos are as about as boring as they come.

This is kind of off-topic, but it's related to thinking in total time vs. units of time. When I started a job working 12-hour shifts, almost everyone was pushing it up as the greatest thing ever because we got more days off. Over the course of a year, it might work out that we got a few extra days off; but, month to month, we didn't really get more days off. We got more calendar days off, but a day is 24 hours. We were pretty much working the same number of hours that we would with 8-hour shifts, but those hours were compressed. When you work 12-hour shifts, you have very little time to do anything on the days you work unless you want to be sleep deprived. Otherwise, everything has to be delayed until a day you don't work. So, every time I was off, I was playing catch-up. I saw no benefit to the 12-hour shifts other than less time spent on traveling to and from work, but I only lived 5 minutes away.

We alternated from working two days a week to five days a week. Someone told me that I would only need to take two days off (24 hours of leave) to have a week's worth of vacation. That was true, but I would be coming back the next week to work 60 hours.