Instead, using my classic 'I'm gonna do it anyway' fashion I have recently decided to go back to school. I am a 28 year old high school drop out with a GED with a toddler and a baby on the way and I am going back to school. I am terrified and excited all at the same time. In school I tested well and knew the material I just never showed up to school and failed via attendance. By senior year I had to make up three english classes, two science classes and as of now I still have not finished that mile in PE. (My class graduated in '05.) All that said I had been thinking, lately, that I had no idea what I was going to do with myself when my kids started going off to school during the day and I don't know if I want to nanny my way into old age so to speak. I thought, what am I going to do about retirement? By the time I make my way back into the work force I will have a big employment gap in my resume, no real marketable skills and by the time I start working again my normal pay rate will be minimum wage.
So guess what I did.. Really... I applied for financial aid and started the application process for NHTI to an associates degree in IT. Since I mostly work from home I can study at nights and most days and in the few classes that require attendance, at least in the first semester, I can take them when my husband comes home from work.
My whole life I have been told I won't be able to do anything with my life because I didn't finish school, that without a degree I was doomed to flip burgers or fold sweaters. Well, that is not what I had in mind when I look at the future. I don't want to work a job that takes me away from my kids at all hours or do something I truly hate because the kids notice. They really do. I love computers and have no problem spending large amounts of time in front of one. (Gee, who would have thought. Someone who volunteers to stare at a computer screen all day. We have been training our kids for years.) Besides, technology will never stop advancing and when/if the apocalypse happens, well, you already know I am working on that.
I guess what I am trying to get across to my readers is that you wont truly know unless you try. Weather it is applying for that promotion, asking for a raise, or going back to school the answer will always be no if you don't ask. So I asked and if they say no I will ask again, or ask someone else. Don't let 'society' or 'tradition' determine your decisions for you. I am living proof that the standard doesn't work for everyone. So don't be everyone.
Anyway, we find out the gender of the baby in a couple of weeks and there will be a reveal party that I will post the photos of for you all. As promised here is your off topic adorableness.
