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| Subject: | GISList: GIS Career Interest |
| Date: |
04/14/2003 01:30:01 PM |
| From: |
The Quantum Fishe |
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Hello. My name is Stephen Brown. I'm a recent subscriber to this list.
I am writing to ask if anyone could help me find information on where I can
find technical training in the GIS industry. My main fields of interest are
Cartography, GIS Computer Software, and Field Data Gathering activities: in
short, I like maps for their own sake as a most practical device, and as an
art form, in and of themselves.
Computer software for GIS (ArcView, Manifold, GeoMedia, etc.) also holds my
interest and appeals to my creative side. Finally, doing the field work of
walking or driving a road, woodlot, or mountainside appeals to me for the
active, out-of-doors side of me and lets me participate in the actual
real-time gathering of pertinent geographic data, whatever it may be.
I am interested in a more technically-oriented approach to learning, as
traditional academic approaches have not worked for me thus far in my life.
I desire a carefully-focused, "laid-back" type of educational and vocational
approach, where the student is made to feel as if their success is of
paramount importance to the instructor(s)--and is!
Both collegiate styles of instruction and more on-the-job type of approaches
(both resulting in certifications) are acceptable. I'm looking for names of
schools that are, essentially, technical colleges that focus more on the
doings of the pertinent job, rather than the more traditional Liberal Arts
college curriculum, as I do not learn well from that style of instruction.
The combination of on-the-job or like-the-job training at a technical
college would benefit me greatly, as well as any private-company that may
offer such endeavoring.
Finally, I have Attention Deficit Disorder--to me, a mild learning
disability--which mostly affects my mathematics, and some organizatinal and
planning abilities. It is by no means debilitating, but can be a bit of a
problem towards the middle of a semester, when I suffer from "information
overload" and usually end up having to cut back my class load or stop
classes all together. Thus the desire for a more hands-on approach.
I am eager to participate in what is, to me, and exciting industry. I owe
the new recreational sport of Geocaching (www.geoaching.com/faq.asp) for
getting me interested in GIS, and I have also been a map and compass nut for
years.
Thank you in advance for any help. I am best reached at the following two
email addresses and this list:
thequantumfishe@netscape.net
thequantumfishe@chartermi.net
Send to both for best results.
Again, I thank you.
Respectfully,
Stephen A. Brown
Traverse City, Michigan
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