More student stories

More of the stories we received on your experiences with the WEA, from the smallest to the most life changing...

 

In the late 90s (I think), I attended a WEA course at Torrens Valley TAFE. This  was my first taste of email and the Internet. It was life changing. Since then, I have been using the net daily to research information, look at YouTube videos, connect with others through social media etc - Lorenzo

 

 

Through the years I have enjoyed many of the WEA courses for leisure, but if it wasn't for WEA I wouldn't have a job in administration.Seven years ago, in my forties, & unemployed, I had trouble getting work in administration as I didn't have any computer skills.  My then Job Skills provider suggested I do a MYOB course at WEA.  Job skill providers prefer to send their unemployed clients to WEA as the courses are reasonably priced. 

I completed all the MYOB courses on offer, as well other computer courses such as Word, Excell, Outlook, etc.  Within 6 months I got my first job in administration.  After a couple of years I moved on & to help me understand my new job I did WEA's Bookkeeping course, which allowed me to move on in my career.  I then did the Accountancy course, which helped me enormously to be competent in my next job.  Fate has moved me to another chapter in my career in administration, & without the skills I developed through the WEA courses, I would not have got this far.

I can honestly say that every computer & vocational course I ever undertook at WEA, helped me get employment.

Thank you WEA - Veronica

EXPERT EDITING

A quote I received to edit a 50,000 manuscript nudged two thousand dollars.

I have been accumulating Novella Size manuscripts for almost 25 years, thinking the first draft to be the finished job; being prepared to accept grammatical changes upon the editor’s suggestion.

In the WEA Course Guide, November 2012, Martina Taeker invited writers to learn Expert Editing.

To attend a course in Adelaide on a Sunday I need to spend two nights in the city. I live in the country, don’t drive and transport back and forth on the weekend is sparse.

Lunch with a cherished friend alerted me to her writing non- fiction articles within her profession.   She, twenty years my junior, drove to the course where we both embarked on stimulating strategies toward our fiction and non-fiction work.

Quality time with my chauffer was equally rewarding as the knowledge the tutor taught.

A novella I hadn’t touch for fifteen years, has grown wings since heeding the tutor’s advice at the WEA Expert Editing Course.

                Gratitude - Rosemary