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    Finding Your Way from High School to College
    Finding Your Way from High School to College
    Finding Your Way from High School to College
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    Finding Your Way from High School to College

    By Rebecca Harmon

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    This second eBook in my Finding Your Way series, "Finding Your Way: from high school to college" is written for high school students to help them make realistic plans for college and beyond, based on real data in combination with their dreams. As a tool, it is also ideal for high school guidance counselors and parents who need to have sometimes-difficult conversations with young people about reconciling their dreams with reality, whether financial or academic.

    Student loans now number in the trillion-dollar range and the number of people defaulting on them continues to rise. Spending money on education is serious business, and borrowing money for education has life-long implications that few high school students comprehend, even today. This book is a step toward open and honest communications between high school students and their parents about HOW to go to college using basic common sense around the many academic and financial choices available today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRebecca Harmon
    Release dateDec 26, 2013
    ISBN9781310971365
    Finding Your Way from High School to College
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    Rebecca Harmon

    I am a healthcare professional, educator, writer, US Navy veteran, mother and grandmother. I live in Pittsburgh, PA and I'm never without a small posse of rescued pets. I spent my earliest working years with my sister and parents as we traveled juried craft shows where our artist/glassblower father enchanted crowds with demonstrations in hot glass and our mother expertly narrated the demonstrations telling stories about the origins of glass and then selling the unique pieces of art. Providing breaks and the occasional time off for my mother, I served as a cashier and sales rep in the business and still remember the "Craft Show Years" with fondness. Those early years (I was younger than 15) helped hone my intense curiosity about work, careers and doing what you love. They also provided me with a rich context for writing based on the very unique circumstances as well as the people we met and interacted with in those years. After serving 6 years on active duty in the US Navy (Hospital Corpsman) - many years after the craft shows - I went on to earn a bachelor's degree in health information management at the University of Pittsburgh and a master's degree from Carnegie Mellon. I have worked as an academic dean for a community college, a faculty member in both the community college and university setting and as an academic consultant for various organizations. Recently I returned to my original professional life, working in healthcare. While blogging, writing and speaking to groups about a variety of topics is my great passion; I can also be found listed in local college course catalogs as an adjunct professor because interacting with students keeps me grounded and real. It also gives me a steady stream of terrific character ideas.

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      Finding Your Way from High School to College - Rebecca Harmon

      FINDING YOUR WAY

      from high school to college

      By

      Rebecca Harmon

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      PUBLISHED BY:

      Rebecca Harmon on Smashwords

      Finding Your Way: from high school to college

      Copyright © 2013 by Rebecca Harmon

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. Your support and respect for the property of this author is appreciated.

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      My heartfelt gratitude and sincerest thanks go out to my Coach-in-Chief and biggest fan, Amy Harmon Krtanjek – also known as my sister. I am also grateful for the rest of my family; especially my children, Diana & Jordan who have tolerated, supported and encouraged my many projects over the years, and to my parents who have been invaluable sounding boards for this and numerous other ideas. Thanks are also due to the professors & teachers I have had the good fortune to learn from, and the many students I have taught and mentored over the years - thank you all for sharing yourselves and your journeys with me.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 - What I Know Today

      Chapter 2 - Show Me the Money

      Chapter 3 - The Job Market

      Chapter 4 - Is it Worth It?

      Chapter 5 - Bumps Along the Way

      Chapter 6 - Other Options

      Chapter 7 - Dreaming Big is Still OK, but…

      Conclusion

      Appendix

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      FINDING YOUR WAY: from high school to college

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      Introduction

      High school is a time filled with promise, dreams and the anticipation of making your own mark in the world. For many students, the dreams they carry into college and the work world are

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