I live in a town that doesn’t have much in the way of college business courses, or a very big selection of any kind of college courses.  After doing some internet searches, I was happy to see there are plenty of accredited online colleges with all kinds of classes, and quite a few that offered online business degrees.  I was mainly interested in online mba programs.  I had already taken some undergraduate courses like economics and marketing, but needed more courses for an MBA.  I am an accounts representative in a small bank. It is my dream to someday work overseas in the financial management field, so I have an interest in international business and multinational companies.

I also looked for online schools that offer foreign language classes, since I’d like to take some Spanish.  That’s a language that will always be useful even if I don’t work overseas at some point.  We are getting more Hispanic workers in our area. Some of them are coming to the bank to open new accounts, so I want to communicate better with them.  No one on our staff is fluent in Spanish.  I talked to my supervisor about this last week; today she told me the bank would pay my tuition for any Spanish courses I take, including online classes.  She also said that could lead to a raise in pay, depending on performance reviews.  That was great news, so I’ll probably try an online Spanish class first.

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