Have any of you taken some kind of short course to learn a new occupation? There is a culinary school in my area that I think you go for 3 months and then you do internship. They teach basic skills of a short order cook and working in a professional, industrial kitchen. It is mostly for unemployed people to give them a skill and is free to most. Not sure if I would qualify for free and not sure I want to be a short order cook either. But was wondering what other things people have done to get some skills quickly and get a job. I was interested in paralegal but typically it is studied in college. Oh, that is another issue, I have no college degree. I had a great career in Research and Development for 22 years and just fell into that and did very well. Now, I am retired but would like to learn something new and apply my new skills. I was also looking at Ed2go and there are courses on Grant Writing which would be of interest to me but then where would I work and I would have no experience.