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MineralMan

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4. Community colleges also offer work-related training in most places.

Reply to Shemp Howard (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 29, 2018, 10:38 AM

Dec 2018

I don't know if cosmetology is one of those that are offered.

Where I am, health care training is commonly offered at local community colleges, at several levels. However, the lower levels of those jobs pay minimum wage or a little more, so they're not a great path to self-sufficiency.

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A $21,000 Cosmetology School Debt, and a $9-an-Hour Job [View all] workinclasszero Dec 2018 OP

I have sympathy for the people who incurred all the debt MichMan Dec 2018 #1

It should have been a free high school course. Shemp Howard Dec 2018 #2

Community colleges also offer work-related training in most places. MineralMan Dec 2018 #4

It's a trap a lot of people fall into. MineralMan Dec 2018 #3

Our community college system has a cosmetology program Codeine Dec 2018 #5

+1 and +1 Delmette2.0 Dec 2018 #6