It is easy to fall into the trap of being mad at misfortune. Being angry at misfortune and wanting revenge is the common response. Even when that revenge would be well placed it is far easier to judge and to seek destruction than to place the prior events in a greater context.

I will say this, because of the change in the career school approach to education, seemingly less quality, more focus on serving those that can't complete the basic first year requirements, more focus on online education without the true skill transfer that hands on labs provide, and an over-zealous pursuit of the dollar it is unlikely that I will ever again work in that market.

Yet there is a silver lining, a set of facts that frees me from disappointment and sadness as I see what is now promoted by the school as 'meeting its obligations'.

When I left the school it was like a marriage gone bad where the other spouse had a steamy affair and refused to cut it off even when it was obvious that the affair was ongoing. It terms of work it really was more of an affair of greed, not sex. Why train 30 or 100 people in twenty area where the different groups can suceed. No, lets stop training 5000 students 30 to 200 at a time and move on to training 7000 students but only if we can train them 500 at a time.

In order to do this, it is important to kick the smaller groups under the bus to make way for the larger, more profitable numbers. For what it is worth, that is one perspective.

Yet, just as in a bad marriage, there was a time when the benefits far outweighed the negative. In the case of work and career it is possible to cut the cord and move on, not looking back.

So, what did my prior employer provide. Skills, sufficient to work in the IT industry for the rest of my life. Friends. a few life long friends. Knowledge, a much greater knowledge of people and business than I had had previously.

Knowing what I know now, I would never again be a customer or employee of that company. Yet personally, at a time when that company took a different view of career education, it was a place that truly gave as much as it got. And, it got a lot of money because of the dedication to small groups of students.