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12 years ago
Well, after about two and a half years of going through classes online, ranging from career-oriented classes and customer service to specific coding and advanced coding classes, I've finally finished my last class last week and... it's very relieving. The school said they will mail me the diploma in a few weeks and after going through the worst moments (when I felt I'm going nowhere with this) and high moments (earning grades good enough to be in the Honor Roll), I can finally sit back and relax for a little bit before going back to the grind and actually make use out of all this training. Besides finding a new job, I'm going to prepare and train again for perhaps the most important exam in my life... an exam for CPC (Certified Professional Coder) credentials. It'll be through the AAPC and it'll be 150 questions, five hours and forty minutes to complete, and $300 to apply (but at least it'll allow one free retake... heh). A few days ago during my lunch break at work, the CEO of the hospital shared the table with me and my co-workers (cuz he's awesome that way) and I mentioned that I graduated with a degree on medical coding and billing. He congratulated me and said that oftentimes coders earn around $20 or more per hour, starting pay. But he said certification will seriously help me on the job market, so that's one of my next major goals in life.
But right now, right at this moment... I just want to relax and rewind a little, now that I don't have to pour through these books again. Not until I go back to the running.
I have just two RPG projects/obligations going at the moment... one is of course my own RPG, which has just seen the loss of two great players that left due to personal reasons and while I miss them, they are still in good terms and such. The Star Fox RPG is pretty much in intensive care or dead, and out of its ashes is a brand new RPG, my very first one that stems out of an original concept, not one with a Nintendo-made background. It's called Shadow Watch RPG, and it's set in the real-life world in 2012 but with a furre-twist and a few other things that would make it different from just 'Earth with Furries'. It has just four players right now (the people that stayed with me from the SFRPG) and would love to have more serious-minded players that can devote a number of hours almost every Saturday night on IRC. The other RPG I'm involved in is the FWA, and I'm very thankful that the FWA is very freeform... I have no obligation to participate there if I don't want to (unless I have a match date with another player there) but thankfully I do want to be involved there often, as I have been over the last three to four years there. One of my characters is the Heavyweight Champion in the FWA, but I seriously need to have him show up there more often or risk having his title stripped for inactivity. :P Nathan Coyers may be a douchebag of a character, but he's not going to go down without a good fight.
I need to go back to writing fiction seriously... the last project I posted on here, Saffire Ruby, came to an unfinished end and that's a shame because I enjoyed writing that story... my muse for it just fizzled out. I intend to write another furre steampunk-related story sometime... hopefully now that I don't have to deal with classes anymore, this would be a good time for it.
Um... I don't have much else in mind. Later y'all! Going back to work at the hospital soon. :P
But right now, right at this moment... I just want to relax and rewind a little, now that I don't have to pour through these books again. Not until I go back to the running.
I have just two RPG projects/obligations going at the moment... one is of course my own RPG, which has just seen the loss of two great players that left due to personal reasons and while I miss them, they are still in good terms and such. The Star Fox RPG is pretty much in intensive care or dead, and out of its ashes is a brand new RPG, my very first one that stems out of an original concept, not one with a Nintendo-made background. It's called Shadow Watch RPG, and it's set in the real-life world in 2012 but with a furre-twist and a few other things that would make it different from just 'Earth with Furries'. It has just four players right now (the people that stayed with me from the SFRPG) and would love to have more serious-minded players that can devote a number of hours almost every Saturday night on IRC. The other RPG I'm involved in is the FWA, and I'm very thankful that the FWA is very freeform... I have no obligation to participate there if I don't want to (unless I have a match date with another player there) but thankfully I do want to be involved there often, as I have been over the last three to four years there. One of my characters is the Heavyweight Champion in the FWA, but I seriously need to have him show up there more often or risk having his title stripped for inactivity. :P Nathan Coyers may be a douchebag of a character, but he's not going to go down without a good fight.
I need to go back to writing fiction seriously... the last project I posted on here, Saffire Ruby, came to an unfinished end and that's a shame because I enjoyed writing that story... my muse for it just fizzled out. I intend to write another furre steampunk-related story sometime... hopefully now that I don't have to deal with classes anymore, this would be a good time for it.
Um... I don't have much else in mind. Later y'all! Going back to work at the hospital soon. :P
