I’m looking for financial/investment management courses/seminars in california?

Check you local community colleges, they tend to offer more continuing education courses on subjects that regular universities. I’d try reading some articles as well on various sites like:

I don’t want to sound rude,but you would be waisting your time and
resources on a profession that is gonna be on the loosing end by the end of 2007 do to the world financial depression we are headed into.Trust me I know!Get a hands on profession.