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Moving Out of Home – List of What You Need
There are quite a few things you will need before moving out of home and getting a place of your own. Although living at home is convenient, and cheap, you’re now ready to do your own thing after matric or after college, but what will you need before you can actually move out of home? Well, to move out of home, money is a big necessity, obviously, so hopefully you’ve been saving up, or your family can assist a bit, or you can continue staying at home a while longer, perhaps even earning some extra income in your spare time, and save money until you can afford to move out. Try understand that your parents may need some assistance with your living expenses while you are still staying at home. If you … Read entire article »
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Basic Steps to Get a Job After Matric
Now what? You’ve finished matric and need to get a job, but you are not sure of what the basic steps to get a job after matric are. In brief, the basic steps to get a job after matric are: preparation, looking for a job, doing research on the business, contacting the business or employer, going to interviews, responding to hearing that you got a job PREPARATION FOR GETTING A JOB AFTER MATRIC Open a bank account if you don’t already have a bank account. Imagine you get a job, a month passes, and your employer wants to pay your salary into your bank account, and you don’t yet have a bank account. You’ve hardly started working and you have to try get some time off to go and open a bank account before you can receive your … Read entire article »
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What I did After Matric
As South African matriculants write their 2011 matric exams I realise it is 25 years since I wrote my own matric exams. Getting old sucks. I often feel like I am still 17, and not 42. I wrote my matric exams at Hudson Park High School in East London in South Africa in 1986. I didn’t do so well – in fact I failed maths standard grade, by about 2%, but I passed matric. I was 17 when I matriculated from Hudson Park. In fact I still find it odd that even though I hated and failed maths, one of the first jobs I got was based on my doing well in a basic maths test. It was 1988 and I was sitting in a Transnet skills testing room with about 12 … Read entire article »
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Thinking About What To Do After Matric
Thinking about what to do after matric can be scary; where to begin? Life for school children is pretty routine and “safe” but after matric matriculants have to face the “big world out there.” Compiling a list of questions should help school children who are soon to matriculate gather their thoughts and think of even more appropriate questions which they should be dealing with and answering. Here is a list of questions to get matrics or their parents started: Do I really want to study further after matric? If I study further, is there a good chance I will find a job when my studies are over? What can I study? If I am going to university, should I go to university in another town or to a university in my own town? Will my parents be … Read entire article »
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