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I work in a specialized vocational school that provides training to receive a "certificate of completion" in Paralegal studies in Orange County, California. We're a small school and this has been our niche for 18 years. The State of California, in its' Business & Professions Code, spells out very clearly what is required to legally be able to enter the Paralegal field in this State. Our program satisfies the requirements.
Our program is nationally accredited and is nine months long going to school three days per week. It is considered full-time for financial aid, VA benefits and for assistance through the WIA program for those individuals that are receiving unemployment benefits. We also have an evening program which is a part-time program for those that are working. Most of our evening students are currently working in law firms. Most of our current day-time students are from the mortgage, banking and financial services industries and are professionals who have lost 10-15+ year careers in this economic collapse.
If someone has the ability to take a 2-year degree program and feel that they need it, that's great. Our program's emphasis has always been to "get them trained and get them to work". Further education can always be attained after you get to work. You can continue all the way to a Master's degree in Paralegal studies if you want.
There ARE jobs available right out of school WITHOUT prior legal experience and WITHOUT completing an ABA approved program (which ours isn't). Our current placement rate is 87.5% and the County agencies that utilize our training program for their clients continue to send prospective students to look at our program because they DO get jobs.
We're all in the midst of an economic mess. California's unemployment rate jumped to 9.3% in December with 919,300 listed as unemployed in Southern California alone. It's going to get worse. The EDD, however, updated their listing of "Fastest Growing Occupations" in October for Orange County and Paralegal was listed #15, projecting to 2016 over 31% growth change. L.A., the Inland Empire and San Diego Counties have strong growth projections also.
If you are out of work you've got to start looking at ALL of your options. In California, take advantage of your local One-Stop offices. Here in Orange County they're overloaded but they are a bunch of hard-working, dedicated individuals that have great resources to offer. You may be eligible for training assistance. Perhaps considering a career change is the right direction for you. LOOK AT OPTIONS. Be realistic. Don't be afraid to at least GET INFORMATION (it's free!). It is NOT going to get better soon. All indications are that we're looking at at least a couple of years of "bad times". No one knows. IT IS SCARY.
If you're considering a career move and want to explore Paralegal as an OPTION here in SoCal, you can contact me to see what we have to offer. Look at other schools too. Look at other fields. It's all about options.
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In NY starting salary for a mailman is $19 per hour. That's $39,500.00 with just high school. A plumbers assistant makes about the same without high school.

I think that these "short cut" schools are contributing to the dumbing down in the U.S. Four year colleges get critized for not preparing graduates for the work-force but they do learn to think and use basic reasoning skills to solve problems. In contrast, the "end user" schools (ITT, etc) advertise themselves as alternatives to college but attract less bright students from high school that are ever searching for immediate gratification in the educational process.

Um...what planet do you have to live on to be able to get a paralegal job starting at upwards of $40K a year with an Associates Degree? I have a Bachelor's Degree in Legal Studies, which, by the way, is an American Bar Association accredited program at my alma mater. In addition, I have a Paralegal Certificate from the University, I have a Paralegal Certificate of Westlaw Proficiency which was awarded by Thomson-West, and I was a member of the Honors College. It took a full year after graduation for me to find the job that I am in now, and I started at $30K yearly, which I jumped at without hesitation.

Not only that, but many states now require NALA certification in order to be a paralegal, and the states that do not require it statewide oftentimes require it for state government paralegal or legal research positions. Many people who take the Certification for Legal Assistants exam from NALA fail because it is such a difficult exam (and these are people with four year degrees, mind you); people in the know jokingly refer to it as the Bar Exam, Jr.

I refuse to believe that any law firm anywhere (except for maybe certain law firms in unusually large metropolitan areas such as New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., etc.) will hire someone fresh out of college with a two year degree and offer them $40K or more as a starting salary (and nobody can tell me that corporate firms will offer higher salaries than smaller firms, because I work for a corporate firm and my cousin works for a different corporate firm, and we both make around the same pay). I realize the article said that that amount was the "average", but this "average" comes about after years and years of experience. The aforementioned experience, by the way, is almost always a prerequisite for most employers; it is simply difficult to find ANYTHING if you have no prior legal experience in the work force! Time spent in school does not count, either.

Either I'm in the wrong hemisphere (sarcasm!) for my line of work, or somebody at jobs.aol.com is smoking too many crack rocks. When people with a college education like myself have to work 60-70 hours a week at TWO low paying jobs for almost a full year to make ends meet and support a family before finding a job which will utilize their education, you know the economy is suckin' hard, and I got hired on with my current law office in May of '07, which was many months before the so-called "Great Recession" we now face.

Please.

Also, you can become a Registered Nurse with an Associate Degree. That's what I have and make between 40,000-55,000 a year, depending on where you are located.

I was thinking of changing careers and the paralegal field is right up my ally. I have an extensive background in Landlord/tenant, Workers Comp and a few others. I need a job that won't "tax" my surgically repaired arms. I'm in NJ and wanted to know what On-line degrees might suitme best and what I can hope to spend in time and money to get a decent job.

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i was actually looking into the whole dental hygienist thing but i just recently changed my major to biology because i've spoken to quite a few ppl that have been in the field and the majority of them all say if they could do it all over again they would and they would become dentist.. i didnt wanna do all the courses for dental hygienist and then in the end find out thatz really not what i want to do.. i think its something you really have to think about.. the few extra years of school will pay off in the end.. n this is what i really wanna do

Will you please stop this nonsensical behavior about AAS You still need a BBA a BBS an MBA or a Doctorate No matter what to succeed in life look at Obama
You can make it without a 4 year degree or 6 or 8 these are the exceptions confirming the rules but they are not the norms. In spreading myths like these you are making America dumber. Look ay our curreny Prez: Columbia, Harvard degrees very articulate, brainy. I have an AAS in business Administration but did not amount to beans upon graduation so I decided to pursue the science of knowledge further and it worked. The testimonies I read are from technicians with AA degrees and they are good at what they are not broadly educated.