andyourlittledogtoo Senior Member
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Saturday January 14, 2006 12:29 PM
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Art's advice is excellent re the networking during volunteer work. The thing is we don't know what your restrictions are, whether your pre-injury job was similar to the activities you must engage in while going to school or volunteering. If you had a job where you had heavy work, say, and your work restrictions while on TTD were to not lift over 50lbs and your employer could not give you modified work, then going to classes that are pretty sedentary would not be beyond those restrictions and TTD would not be an issue. But say your job was at a desk all day, and your restrictions meant you could do very little while recuperating - the school or volunteer activities might be beyond the restrictions and as heavy or even more heavy than if you were working, thus putting your TTD in jeopardy. You see what I mean? So much depends on what you used to do, what your doctor says you can no longer do and for which your employer has no modified work. The last thing you want is for the IC to find out you are doing things beyond your restrictions and for which your employer could have you working again.
If you cross that hurdle intact, then starting with the studying, picking up night school classes perhaps, could be very valuable to you in your future employment search. Studying to get your GED, picking up computer classes if you don't already possess those skills, language classes to assist in becoming bilingual if you're not, whatever career related studies you can pick up there would probably be helpful. Formal training at a college is more money and takes longer to get accepted into but as long as you don't do more than your restrictions permit that's an option too.
The lien situation with a voc school I can't rule out entirely, but I would be very shocked if any would agree to that, especially in light of the fact that any voucher would depend on your PD level and no one knows what that might be yet.
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