Sheila starts college classes again today after a small layoff, and I told her I couldn't be more proud of her that she's going to accomplish her life-long goal of being a child psychologist.
How she goes about it is no business of mine, but I know finances have to be weighed. Most likely, she's going through student loans, and she has asked me on occasion why I don't pursue a Bachelor's degree while using a student loan to pay for it.
How would I be able to afford it down the line?
I ended up earning 80 credit hours while in college from 1990-96. Unfortunately, the only thing that came out of my pocket was book money more often than not, and maybe one semester's worth of tuition. My family paid the rest, and they can't do that now.
I will never advance further than I am now in my current job. Airplane mechanics get paid a great deal, but I can't even find a radiator cap to my car, as I've detailed before. My current knowledge in video production is dated at best, since the computer revolution has matured itself since my 1996 graduation.
You can't go anywhere without some sort of college education these days. What about those of us who can't afford that, or whose families haven't set forth on saving for college upon someone's birth? Why is the working man on the lowest end of the totem pole the one who can't see answers in front of them, because the most logical & obvious of the alternatives is the most unreachable?
I need about twenty credit hours to obtain a bachelor's degree, I believe - about two full semester's worth. And it would get me exactly where I want to go. But what happens when the bill comes in, and it turns out I don't have that promising job yet to pay it off? I've heard it's a problem with many college students, but one I want to avoid, and one I wish all those others did not have to face.
Why is that so, and how come the people who want to advance a little in this world can't without the worries going through their sub-conscious?
Well, when Sheila gets her degree, that's when I'll find out the answers!
