With the impending arrival of spring, okay, it’s not really impending, but with our transition into the month of March which is closer to the arrival of spring, I decided it was time to do some career improvement. I’ve been thinking of officially taking some editing courses over the last several months, as that’s something that I’ve been interested in for a while. I recently had my performance review at work as well, and my boss reminded me that our department has a training budget we can use. My courses aren’t that expensive, around $270 each, plus textbooks, so I figured I would be able to get my company to pay for it. And sure enough, my boss said “no problem”. Sweet!

First course up is a grammar course for editors and writers. I took a grammar course about 10 years ago as part of  my technical writing certificate, so I was hoping to get an extension, however that was denied. No big deal as I’m a bit of a grammar nut anyways, so I figured it would be kind of fun. Although I am anxious to get started into the editing classes themselves, I’ve got to get this grammar course out of the way first.

So for 14 consecutive Tuesdays, I will be out and about learning more about clauses, verb tenses and parts of speech. Excellent.