Adventures While At BC

With the technology field job situation in Arizona dwindling, I started looking at career re-direction. Like many my age, I was not unsure I was making a smart choice, and correct move at this time in my life. Not having attended college for many years, I was very hesitant to jump in and start over with a new career. Discussions with my family helped shape my decision to re-direct into a field that would guarantee a steady income for the future. After considerable research, determining potential for growth and job satisfaction, I determined I could make a future by pursuing a Medical Insurance Billing and Coding career by attending BC-Online. I opted to stay at work, and pursue the online program. I found this choice to be demanding; one which needed to balance family, work, and life choices. I found out early that going to school online, while working and having a family, meant one needs to have great time management skills, and an ability to stay focused—it is hard to do school with home front activities, and other distractions when studying. I also found it challenging not having someone available to talk with, bounce things off of when it came to school work. I found that I needed to re-learn to be self-sufficient and research problems while awaiting teacher interaction by email and professor/classmate interaction in class forums. This taught me patience, as turn-around time was typically 24-plus hours to get a response from an instructor, or a couple hours or more before peer interaction in the forums was received. However, I found I missed interaction with others that one experiences when attending school as a resident student. Therefore I became interested in what my wife was doing on-campus at BC-Phoenix. I offered to aid her in any school endeavors she became involved with. I participated in Light the Night,