UP & COMING.

``What Will You Do With the Rest of Your Life?'' is a series of 10 career workshops for people making career changes or joining the labor market for the first time, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursdays, Oct. 3-Dec. 19, West Valley Occupational Center, 6200 Winnetka Ave., Woodland Hills. Topics will include personality types, choices and values, assertion-aggression, shyness-anger, interpersonal relations, job market information, resume writing and closed-circuit television interviewing. Resume writing and interviewing will be offered twice. Cost: $35. For more information, call Alberta Poverny or Janine Quint at [phone], Ext. 223 or 280.

VP Networking Expo will offer attendees the opportunity to discover how business networking can help promote their business, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 3, Explorer Showroom, Galpin Ford, 15555 Roscoe Blvd., Van Nuys. Free as guest of the network. For more information, call Mike Lipshultz at [phone], Ext. 5 or Bob Carmie at [phone]. Don't forget to bring your business cards.

PACE (Project for Adult College Education) program is being offered by Mission College to working adults who want to complete their associate in arts degree or transfer to a university in just five semesters. Applications are available through Oct. 4 by calling [phone]. Enrollment fee for one semester is $78.

``How to Earn Money Writing Free-lance Articles,'' a seminar to be taught by journalist and author Rena Dictor LeBlanc, will cover where to get ideas for articles, how to target the right publications, how to write the articles and much more, 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 5, Woodland Hills. For reservations and location, call [phone].

Two IBM Compatible Computer Classes are offered by the West Valley Jewish Community Center with ``Introduction to P.C.'': basics of Microsoft DOS operating system and Microsoft Windows 3.1, 7 to 9:30 p.m. four Mondays, Oct. 7-28, ($85 members; $120 nonmembers); and ``Desktop Publishing/Microsoft Publisher 2.0'': familiarity with Windows 3.1 is required, 7 to 9:30 p.m. five Tuesdays, Oct. 8-Nov. 5, ($105 members; $140 nonmembers). Instructor of both classes: Earl Lewis. Location: 22622 Vanowen St., West Hills. For more information, call [phone].

``How to Lose (or Keep) a Good Hardworking Employee'' seminar will be taught by author-speaker and consultant Eden Rose, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Oct. 9, Los Angeles Valley College Community Services, 5800 Fulton Ave., Van Nuys. Fee: $23. For more information and registration, call [phone].