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Aug. 23rd, 2010 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI'm thinking a lot about school today.
I'm working in a career that I don't believe is right for me. I'm going to stay here for a while and save what money I can, then get out of it and go to school. That much I'm certain of. I'm pretty sure about what I want to focus on as far as a degree and career path too, though I suppose that could change.
But I'm not quite sure how to get there from here. The first thing I think I'll do is make appointments with some counselors at local schools and get a sense of what programs are like there, and how much money I should reasonably expect to have to have saved before I start. I guess that's my biggest problem right now; I don't have a good sense of how much four years of school is going to cost me, and how much of that I'll end up paying myself and how quickly. That's what I'm going to start trying to figure out how to figure out.
I'm an adult student, but I don't have a lot of the limiting responsibilities most adult students have. I don't have kids. I don't have a career I'm very beholden to. I don't have a mortgage. I'm not living with a partner who I have any financial commitments to. Right now, I have the ability to basically drop whatever I'm doing and do something else, or go somewhere else. It'd be nice if there was a decent program near where I am now; I have an offer of cheap living space with my parents while I'm going to school, and that could make things a lot more affordable. But if I end up moving somewhere else, I suppose I'm ok with that too. I just need to know how much I need to reasonably budget for to get started on this.
If you have any thoughts and experiences that you think I might find worthwhile about any of that, I'd love to hear them!
I'm also thinking about leaving my current job and looking for another one. The coworker I'm in the office with on Mondays and Tuesdays talked to me today about possibly leaving the company himself because of the asinine working conditions. If he leaves, and they want me to start doing the kinds of stuff he does, I'm out. No thank you. But I've been getting calls off and on from recruiters looking for people for contract positions, so I feel like I could probably find something without too many weeks or months of searching if I do need to look elsewhere.
But right now, I need to keep dealing with all these tickets that came in for me this morning, and fill out my expense reports for my home phone and, now, data services.
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Here's a picture from the SS Badger's Manitowoc, Wisconsin dock as she backs in to her slip to unload.
Coming Up to the Dock
© Stormdog 2010
I'm working in a career that I don't believe is right for me. I'm going to stay here for a while and save what money I can, then get out of it and go to school. That much I'm certain of. I'm pretty sure about what I want to focus on as far as a degree and career path too, though I suppose that could change.
But I'm not quite sure how to get there from here. The first thing I think I'll do is make appointments with some counselors at local schools and get a sense of what programs are like there, and how much money I should reasonably expect to have to have saved before I start. I guess that's my biggest problem right now; I don't have a good sense of how much four years of school is going to cost me, and how much of that I'll end up paying myself and how quickly. That's what I'm going to start trying to figure out how to figure out.
I'm an adult student, but I don't have a lot of the limiting responsibilities most adult students have. I don't have kids. I don't have a career I'm very beholden to. I don't have a mortgage. I'm not living with a partner who I have any financial commitments to. Right now, I have the ability to basically drop whatever I'm doing and do something else, or go somewhere else. It'd be nice if there was a decent program near where I am now; I have an offer of cheap living space with my parents while I'm going to school, and that could make things a lot more affordable. But if I end up moving somewhere else, I suppose I'm ok with that too. I just need to know how much I need to reasonably budget for to get started on this.
If you have any thoughts and experiences that you think I might find worthwhile about any of that, I'd love to hear them!
I'm also thinking about leaving my current job and looking for another one. The coworker I'm in the office with on Mondays and Tuesdays talked to me today about possibly leaving the company himself because of the asinine working conditions. If he leaves, and they want me to start doing the kinds of stuff he does, I'm out. No thank you. But I've been getting calls off and on from recruiters looking for people for contract positions, so I feel like I could probably find something without too many weeks or months of searching if I do need to look elsewhere.
But right now, I need to keep dealing with all these tickets that came in for me this morning, and fill out my expense reports for my home phone and, now, data services.
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Here's a picture from the SS Badger's Manitowoc, Wisconsin dock as she backs in to her slip to unload.
Coming Up to the Dock
© Stormdog 2010
