Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Wish Me Luck!
I decided today, yesterday actually that I am tired of life sucking. Tired of being stressed out, or broke or stressed out about being broke. So I have contacted our local university to see what my options are. I have only a high school education but have had quite a few "degree required" jobs. I was an area supervisor for a start up company that grew to 8 locations before being sold. Great money and great job! I was a project manager for a small construction company and have been a daycare director. It's definitely not what you know but who I knew that enabled me to get these positions but I excelled at each of them. However, I am now back at a dead end hourly job and not even making ends meet and as I have stated before this job is a new business so who even knows if it will last. I am a single mom of 4 and work full-time but I love learning, being challenged, and success so here I go. I am gonna try to go to college... god help me! I had started this process before a couple years ago but backed out because of family obligations. So I'm gonna try again. Wish me luck. I'll keep you posted!
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I was 40 when I went back and finally finished my college degree. Yes, I have student loans up the wazoo now, but it was worth every penny!
ReplyDeleteYou can do this!!
Well thanks for that as I've said you have inspired me already!
ReplyDeleteGood luck. I loved college and the friends I made there were...more real and genuine than anyone I grew up with. Oh, and the learning helped me get a better job.
ReplyDeleteBest of Luck.
ReplyDeleteNothing ever worthwile is easy.
Which basically sucks but you can do this.
I wish you could tell me how nephew how hard this is with only a high school ed because he is not going forward in his education. He got a hourly job and thinks he is making $$. Wait until his parents tell him to move out. that ought to wake him up.
Best of luck to you! It will be hard but I am confident you can do this!
ReplyDeleteThanks to all for your support. Now let's hope I'm not blogging about why I didn't go through with it in a couple months.
ReplyDeletePEG- Oh I wish I could tell him too. They say $$ is not important but try telling that to the utility companies or daycare or anyone else for that matter. I wish we could have our older age wisdom in our youth. I hope your nephew gets it together.
Hi Raquel, I'm new here, just wanted to encourage you to do it if you can. I'm sure being a single mom of four it will be very challenging at times. If you can find a program that you can do online that would probably help. Even a few classes would be a sense of accomplishment. Good luck!
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