Whatever happened to class? Part 3: Short and sweet: My team presented. It went well. We all got an 'A' for the class. Woo-Hoo!

Now what am I gonna do? Several possibilities:

1. Put out feelers among friends about my new status as an 'A' student in event planning. Get some practical experience by working for them. Refuse to do weddings. (That latter was Abbie Salny's advice, and I do believe she knows what she's talking about.)

2. Contact HR at Ethicon (where I'm a computer consultant now). Ask if their events are done in-house or if they use an outside firm. If in-house, ask about signing on as an event planner. (Let's face it, they're never gonna hire me in the IM department.)

3. Get my transcripts from Michigan State University. See if any of those credits can be transferred to the certificate-granting program in event planning at Raritan Valley Community College, so I don't have to take all 30 hours of courses. See if my life experience at planning RG's for Northern NJ Mensa counts for anything, too.

And of course these are not mutually exclusive. But I took the course because the description in the catalog looked interesting, not because I had some master plan for career change or development. Now that the first class is over, I have to decide if there will be more -- and just where this is all going to lead.