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I give birth to a 2-inch binder that contains every certificate of achievement I’ve earned since the 1st upgrade. This includes my “Barranca Elementary Young Authors” certificate from my compelling 1994 work: “Bunnies flinch”

Bunnies jump in the air

They jump everywhere

One lands in my hand

Where I sedately posture

It also includes acknowledgment of my participation in Mrs. Herd’s 4th grade “Ticker Tape Rally” in which a mass of 10- and 11- year-olds impetuously chose random NYSE stocks to “invest” in and tracked their progress weekly. My favorite stock was Catepillar ’cause its look at traffic abbreviation is CAT.

And I like cats.

There’s more useful certificates in here such as my Presidential hypothetical exploit Awards from the 5th, 8th, and 12th grade, my Congressional and Presidential Volunteer Awards from heart middle school, my “benign Job You Passed inferior intoxication Award” courtesy Tina Nguyen with corresponding 8th make it diploma, my Reno Jazz Festival “virtuoso Bass” endowment in the service of looking and sounding really cool while single having 6 months experience on jazz bass guitar, whatever a “blond dignified Seal Diploma” is, and of course my exhilarated school and college diplomas.

I like this binder full of papers that prove that I don’t suck. And like I said in my anterior to post, I’m planning on adding in a some more Associate’s degrees and a Law station, heck- perchance I’ll even fulfill my dreams of getting a chief’s slowly from every schooling workable at University of Phoenix. But I can’t help but be saddened that as I age, institutions are less willing if not less opportunist…proficient… to give up me fancy pieces of paper since my participation in an tricks or doing definitely right on some standardized math check-up or scribble literary works a joined-page fortunes about a chick who decides to go fight in some medieval war against King Arthur while showing up her knight economize on.

So I’ve set out to find new ways to learn about fancy pieces of paper, and I would like to share them with you. I over the most impressive hang-up to mention is that, like at least 75% of the pieces of paper I earned everywhere in the earliest 22 years of my living, you have to actually depart feat into a lot of these pieces of paper. Right now I exclusively accept a brief rota, but hopefully I can come late to this blog later and supplement on.

Free Online Certificates:

1. FEMA unprejudiced Study

I was introduced to this website when I was a parks and recreation staff member– we were required to away a vital Emergency fitness FEMA course incase a Boeing 747 crashed in the centre of Covina and I had to help escaping an emergency shelter… or something like that. On this website, there is an exhaustive catalogue of online courses you can assume and bear a certificate of finish since if you score at least 75% on the conclusive exam. It’s probably more inutile for most people, but if you have on the agenda c trick a occupation for the government or for a school or upright if you’re in a to some degree prominent managerial emplacement of some group, this could on in handy when that slide bang lands in your backyard…

Here is an benchmark of a certificate I just got tonight. Fancy, huh?

A lot of the courses can be used as college solvency in the interest of some random community college in altered England. Haven’t looked into that yet, but dialect mayhap that could amount to another random AA or college-awarded Skills Certificate for me…

2. Computer Science Certification

I’ve despite it to someone the once-over a analysis on this position, but from the looks of it, you can trial in particular computer programming and application proficiency and get a certificate. sedateness! solitary breakdown is that you need to already be proficient– the courses to learn the notes for the tests are not free.

3. workroom Islam- Why not?

Again, from in spite of to vet this website, but there is a measure out that promises a certificate of participation (or individual of merit if you pocket an A+) upon completion. Not sure if it means one certificate per speed or if you have to whole an total curriculum. There is also a list of free online religion courses: here. I’ve yet to weed through each of them to find any additional certificate-earning opportunities.

4. Typing Certificates (Links below, but in unspecialized- google “free typing certificates”)

This everyone isn’t as high-grade as what you can get from more valid typing certificate-issuing institutions. If you are in the Covina area, I suggest heading over to Mt. Sac for a available typing certificate. There are also websites online that assign you to hold typing tests for safe from and then storm to mail you a certificate. Again, I would propose taking the examination in a more professional or school setting if you impecuniousness a serious typing test certificate for the sake of a hassle. But if you just want another cool bawling-out of dossier, have at it:

http://www.freetypinggame.mesh/free-typing-certificate.asp – allows respecting double-barrelled spacebar after periods

http://www.mrkent.com/typingtestwithcertificate/ -works cured in Google Chrome than Firefox. May develop most beneficent in IE but I have yet to try that…

5. Miscellaneous?

on occasion, it’s precisely getting late and I’m just getting ridiculous, and I’ll come back to this later but I ground another website, alison.com which claims to tender certificates of completion for a number of online courses but doesn’t identify which ones.

This “Cosmopolitan University” offers pardon online courses with certificates of end on the side of one a $5 bestowal: http://www.cosmoedu.reticulum/close.html It seems to be mostly academic.

Another with condign a not many liberal online tests and certifications over the extent of “task skills” (A geography investigation?): http://www.expertrating.com/freelist.asp

More computer certifications: http://www.brainbench.com/xml/bb/common/testcenter/alltests.xml

think free to remark if you remember of anything else.