I attended the Chubb Institute in Cherry Hill, NJ. Their career-placement center was an all-around JOKE. I first must say that the educators were all above-average and some were better than I had in university. But the woman who ran the career placement center was ridiculous.
This big-haired Jersey girl got me a crappy TEMP job at a Compaq WAREHOUSE putting computers into boxes with high-school drop-outs. When I told the temp agency that I would not be returning, the career placement woman called me and told me that I basically had to take any opportunity offered to me and that I was lucky to get in on the ground floor at Compaq.
Here I was, with a BA and a certificate for networking (which I realize now doesn't mean anything in the real world... Especially from a second-rate for-profit "school" like Chubb) and I was working in a warehouse. And this woman from Chubb actually told me she was doing me a favor by getting me this position and implied that by rejecting it I was jeopardizing her standing with the temp agency. PUH-LEEZE.
I couldn't give two @#$% about her OR the "school". I then realized that I had been DUPED and that all she wanted to do was boost her placement numbers so that they can advertise a high placement percentage. I wonder how many more of the people the career department "placed" were working at Wal-Mart type jobs. Chubb was probably the biggest rip-off of my life and I'll be paying for it for a long time.
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