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I need serious ego boost, but also need to be told the truth!!!PLEASE ANSWER SERIOUSLY!?

I have 3 associate’s (A.S. associates in science) degrees (Criminal justice, psychology and sports medicine) and a fitness and nutrition certificate. I speak 3 languages fluently( english,portuguese and spanish) and I do pretty well in french( read and write it). I am currently attending nursing school to become an R.N., but I stil have about a 1 to 1 1/2 years left. I do not have a job so far, but now I would like to get one, and I feel that I wasted my time completely getting the 3 first “degrees”. Are associte’s degrees viewed as something good by employers? Did I really waste my time? I really feel like a failure… =_(
Languages aside would I be able to get a job paying more than U$13.00/hour?
help me…people

In all honesty, if I were reading your resume and saw all those different AA’s AND currently in nursing school, I would not hire you for any job because it looks like you cannot commit. Also a salary of $13.00/hour is not all that high to be aiming for. I think you need to make some serious decisions about what you want to do, persue them all the way through, and remove all of the extraneous info from your resume. If you are going to be an RN, leave the criminal justice off the resume— it’s not related to the work you want to do, and in this case it lessens your credibility.

I don’t think you wasted your time but I think you really need to get an organized plan for your future. I also think you need to stick with one career path long enough to get established and start earning a higher salary. Personally I have NO degrees, I work in IT (second career– I have an AA in culinary arts from about 15 years ago and believe me, it never shows up on my resume) and I make about $65/hour. It’s all about building your worth, knowing what that worth is, and marketing yourself properly.

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