Here I am again at this crappy school computer. I can hardly read the text, the screen is so bad, but at least I have a computer and I'm not sitting through a boring class (okay. It's boring, but I can keep myself entertained with the Internet in front of me.) Class. I don't even know why I bother. I'm into 8 colleges already and I'm sure if I failed at least one of those would still accept me. This whole no sleep, too much work, being expected to get everything done on time thing is getting wayy too old. College can't come fast enough. Now if only I could pay for it...I've gotten a couple more scholarship offers, both really good covering nearly all of half of the cost. And both for girls' schools. I don't have a problem with girls' schools except for the fact that all the students there are girls. I'll get over it, though, if I have to. Getting a degree trumps being completely comfortable any day. I do want to be able to earn a living in the future. Maybe I'll get lucky and hit it big with one of my books. Then I can live at home doing whatever the heck I want and not have to worry about finding a job.
The thing I worry about most with a future career is that I don't want to be bored. I don't want to be at a desk doing paper work or behind a computer all day long answering emails and drawing up presentations and all that stuff that working folks do. That's why I'm going into science. At least then I'll be bored at a lab bench :-) Actually, lately I've been thinking that I might want to pursue being a field geologist again. I wanted to be one from 4th to 7th grade and then I switched to being a crime scene investigator when faced with an English project that required me to make a powerpoint. Rocks are interesting to me but not necessarily to other people. Blood and murders are so much more audience friendly.
Okay. That's all I have time for right now. I just remembered that I have a quarter final next period. Gotta study. Don't know why. Eight colleges. Eight. That's got to be a record.
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Uhhhhmmmm, Jesse? You DO know that having a college degree doesn't guarantee you a living wage or even a job in the field for which you've studied... right?
I have a degree in horticulture/landscape design. I'm the part time office manager at a synagogue. My husband has a degree in anthropology, and he works as a computer geek - which does happen to earn him/us a living wage, but he wasn't able to land that job until he was 56 years old, after struggling along for 30 years with his useless anthropology degree.
Make sure you figure out what you love doing any way, then find a way to make that into a way to support yourself, regardless of whether you can get a "degree" in it or not.
College is a racket, just like most of public education.
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