You’ve made a good decision! You’re taking a college course . maybe more than one. Although you may sometimes feel like you’re wasting your time being in college, you’re not. Yes, it’s expensive. Yes, it’s even sometimes hard. But what you’re doing now will pay off in the long run. In a recent survey of job seekers, a whopping 92 percent said that a major disadvantage in competing for jobs was not having taken college courses. But that’s not what you’ll face because you are enrolled in a college course—the course for which you’ve purchased this book