dg: yes! DAMN cool place! just beautiful, and a slower pace than nyc - for sure!
Denise: Thanks! Yep! Took the test dec. 4 last year. Going back to school for nutrition & food science. It's been a mission so far to get everything i need in order to even apply. As it stands i have to retake my GRE because i'm a dinosaur and my original GRE scores are expired (there is a 5 year limit on those). I also have to take a bunch of pre-requisites for the masters program so that i don't have to get another bachelors degree. And i have to get letters of recommendation from professors who probably don't even remember me anymore, among other things. I'll be happy if I can at least get into the community college there at this rate!
monkey: jobs - there were a few cool gigs, and a few shitty ones at franchise gyms. The jobs i'm referring to that i "found" for us were at a private personal training gym that jodi drove me to, so i could meet a guy she knows through her chiropractor. Well the guy wasn't there but a lady who she knwos was, and she is the new owner, so we all get to talking, and i hand her my resume and tell her our plans and she's all about it! So come june if all is still the same with her, we've got a job. There was one more place like that, but the guy wanted me to start now. He seemed disappointed that i wouldn't be here until june.
iain: Thank you! As for meeting jodi or any of us - perhaps one day you might! You know a bunch of us go to conferences, and meet up and stuff! Join us!
p-funk:
The CSCS cert can take you a long way in the training industry. It holds some water.
Yeah, it holds some water everywhere but World Gym! The fitness manager there, CSCS-certified herself, tells me, "that's great that you're CSCS, but we also require that you be NASM certified. so you'll have 90 days from your date of hire to get that done." I was like, "WHAT?! I don't think so. CSCS is superior to NASM, isn't there some kind of equivalency thing you can do?" And she tells me that she herself has a degree in exercise physiology or something along those lines, but that she was required to get NASM to work at world gym as well... So i just told her, "well i won't waste your time then, because i am not doing it."
Dale: all ghey-ness aside, you can go be industrious in AZ.