Your permit's validity varies based on age: 1  If you're under 18 years old, your permit is valid for 2 years and you must hold it a minimum of 9 months before you can apply for an initial driver's license. 2  If you're 18 years old or older, you'll receive an Illinois learner's permit that is valid for only 1 year.
Career Clusters. Career Clusters provide students with a context for studying traditional academics and learning the skills specific to a career, and provide U.S. schools with a structure for organizing or restructuring curriculum offerings and focusing class make-up by a common theme such as interest.
CONTACTS IN INDUSTRY. It is important for you to know as many people in your business and professional life as you can. To a large degree, contacts are the key to your finding employment, to enjoying your professional career, and often to advancement in your company. One of the steps of preparing yourself for employment is to establish contacts with geologists in industry as soon as possible. If you are still in school, join and be active in your geology club, Sigma Gamma Epsilon, and/or an AAPG student chapter. If your department doesn't have one of these, help start one.