# Online Education Advice
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-education-advice/645908
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 3, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-education-advice/645908 "2013-01-03T01:24:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-education-advice/645908/42 "2014-04-18T21:53:09Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#):
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> TMost of the advice in this thread sucks. Wait, I take that back. It’s not even advice-it’s a catalog of half-hearted suggestions, pulled out of the air, or off of one of Yahoo’s “5 Great Jobs…” articles.
Pretty much. Still more effort than the OP has put into it, though.
As a wise shrink once told me, “You cannot care more than they do about their problem. You’ll make yourself crazy, and it won’t help them.”
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-education-advice/645908/43 "2014-04-18T22:01:16Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#):
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> PM’s need more than just…whatever it is that \*\*Bosda \*\*has, and a new cert or degree. If he goes to a PM program, after time and expense, the hiring manager is going to ask him WTF he knows besides what he got from the class.
To defend my advice, remember that the OP asked for recommendations for an online course or training program that would result in a certificate qualifying him for a career (_not_ in emergency medicine/fire/police, although I don’t know of _any_ online programs that would qualify one for medicine, fire or police work) earning more than $35,000 per year and will get him out of Tennessee. Don’t you think that _might_ be a tall order?
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### Author:  [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-education-advice/645908/44 "2014-04-18T22:23:41Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> To defend my advice, remember that the OP asked for recommendations for an online course or training program that would result in a certificate qualifying him for a career (_not_ in emergency medicine/fire/police, although I don’t know of _any_ online programs that would qualify one for medicine, fire or police work) earning more than $35,000 per year and will get him out of Tennessee. Don’t you think that _might_ be a tall order?
I’m sorry, **Dewey Finn** , I used your post to take off with, not to assail you.
I was so enamoured of my keen insights, that I didn’t take time to properly assign my thoughts.
I apologize to you.
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### Author:  [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-education-advice/645908/45 "2014-04-18T22:27:10Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that yes, project managers are the same folks as project managers.
I’m going to have to have some cites for this.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-education-advice/645908/46 "2014-04-18T22:56:08Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#):
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> > [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> > To defend my advice, remember that the OP asked for recommendations for an online course or training program that would result in a certificate qualifying him for a career (_not_ in emergency medicine/fire/police, although I don’t know of _any_ online programs that would qualify one for medicine, fire or police work) earning more than $35,000 per year and will get him out of Tennessee. Don’t you think that _might_ be a tall order?
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> I’m sorry, **Dewey Finn** , I used your post to take off with, not to assail you.
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> I was so enamoured of my keen insights, that I didn’t take time to properly assign my thoughts.
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> I apologize to you.
I appreciate that. But getting back to the OP; is his request realistic? Are there online certificate programs that will qualify one for jobs?
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### Author:  [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-education-advice/645908/47 "2014-04-19T00:12:51Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> I appreciate that. But getting back to the OP; is his request realistic? Are there online certificate programs that will qualify one for jobs?
Limited, if you eliminate the medical stuff. Human Resources, maybe, but the folks with certificates don’t make much. Paralegal?
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### Author:  [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-education-advice/645908/48 "2014-04-19T00:40:34Z")
Medical transcription seems to fit the bill. You might start below $35,000 if you are in a small market, but that’s really going to be dependent on where you move. There are online courses for it and it’s not a degree. All hospitals need them, so you can move pretty much anywhere.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-education-advice/645908/49 "2014-04-19T00:43:44Z")
> [@Red\_Stilettos](#):
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> Medical transcription seems to fit the bill. You might start below $35,000 if you are in a small market, but that’s really going to be dependent on where you move. There are online courses for it and it’s not a degree. All hospitals need them, so you can move pretty much anywhere.
Medical coding can be a good job as well. Something like this: [Medical Billing and Coding Online Certificate | Drexel Online](http://www.drexel.com/online-degrees/nursing-degrees/medical-billing-coding/curriculum.aspx)
[http://www.educationnews.org/career-index/medical-coding-schools-in-tennessee/](http://www.educationnews.org/career-index/medical-coding-schools-in-tennessee/)
This website might be helpful.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-education-advice/645908/50 "2014-04-19T00:51:55Z")
Is transcription still a valid career path? I’d imagine that it can be automated or outsourced, perhaps overseas. As for medical coding, it might be useful to be trained in ICD10.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2014, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-education-advice/645908/51 "2014-04-19T00:54:00Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> Is transcription still a valid career path? I’d imagine that it can be automated or outsourced, perhaps overseas. As for medical coding, it might be useful to be trained in ICD10.
Yes and no… Congress just passed a bill that delayed ICD10 implementation until 10/14. Right now all certifying exams are still in ICD9. It’s unclear if it’ll get delayed again. Definitely still need 9, exposure to 10 could be useful.
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