I won't get into details, but in short: I couldn't finish High School because of health conditions. Now that I'm cured for the time being, I want to finish my education and become a paramedic. However, It's been two years since I dropped out senior year and I'm 20 now. GED is my only option. Will this hurt my chances at finding work and becoming a paramedic?
>>17151797
nope, having a GED is pretty much the same thing as a high school diploma when it comes to work, the only thing that it will have an effect on is colleges since you likely wont have a decent highschool transcript.
>>17151842
also if you go to like a 2 year course somewhere for whatever paramedics usually have you'll put down your associates degree instead of your GED and people wont even know you have a GED instead of high school diploma.
>>17151843
also also, the 2014+ version of the GED isn't too hard, I've passed the language arts, science, and social studies all with 175+ and I've been out of school since about 2009ish with my highest grade completed being 8th. I have my math coming up on friday so we'll find out how that goes but I'm positive I'll get above 145 which is all you need to pass where I am. For language arts and social studies all you need to know is reading comprehension and how to read graphs, for science it was also just understanding the charts/graphs, being able to balance a chemical equation which is really simple if you remember https://youtu.be/UGf60kq_ZDI or https://youtu.be/eNsVaUCzvLA and also some basic algebra for formulas.
math from what I've read is largely algebra stuff like manipulating polynomials and quadratic equations. You get like 3 little dry erase boards and a marker along with a dank ass calculator, there's only supposed to be 5 questions that you can't use the calculator on and those are at the start and just test your basic math skills like dividing integers and multiplying/subtracting fractions.
>>17151858
Ive been good at everything in school, except math. Like you would have better results quizzing a brick then you would if you quizzed me on math. I just absolutely hate math. But if you say its easier, then I feel confident