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Wed 27 Oct, 2004 09:30 am
Hi my name is Ric and I am 45 years of age. I never finish high school and really the eigth grade was the last grade I completed. I grew up in california and grew up in foster homes never really having a family. When I ws 18 I started hanging sheetrock and did this for 23 years until I hurt my baack. Now I can do alot of things because I grew up the hard way, earning everything I got. My problem is now I have no education in anything but drywall and i cannot do this because of my back. i have no comprehinion whats so ever . I can only do hands on. Does this makes any since. Like I would love to be a counsler for teens. You know those are hard years and me having the experince I love to speak out on what life on the streets really is like. What can I do to better myself and do something like this. I live in vancouver WA
Okay, first things first - you need to get a GED. Here's a website about it:
http://www.acenet.edu/clll/ged/intro-TT.cfm
A GED will be the gateway to better pay and to doing more of what you want to do, rather than where circumstances just throw you.
Best of luck to you.
Hi, ricciD. Welcome to A2K.
If you want to work with teens, providing encouragement and support through your school of hard knocks training, I would suggest going to your local YMCA or other teen related charity organizations. With the right playing of your strengths and assistance from those that work with teens you might make a great speaker.
If you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur, you could hire and train a few drywallers/ sheetrockers to handle the physical labor, and start your own company with you in a supervisory position. Contact builders you have worked with in the past as well as apartment complexes, office complexes and others who may need small jobs done on an as needed basis. Get your name out to Home Depot, lumber yards and other building suppliers.
You might need to think creatively and get outside of the normal work options. Is there a training school or other facility that needs people like you with experience to teach young adults a trade?
Hope that helps you. Will think some more and see what I can come up with.
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