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It’s official. I am going back to school.
Well do enjoy. Can’t say I enjoyed school. Got out at the earliest opportunity (15).
What will you be doing?
Many thanks, and how kind of you.Happy Birthday @Scepticalscribe
Studying what?
The very best of luck with it.
My mother went "back to school" and took a night degree (while working during the day and also raising us) in her 40s, - we both loved the movie Educating Rita, which we went to see together, some time later.
Moreover, I must say, (possibly inspired by my own circumstances, where I saw my mother study at night, and the confidence getting that degree gave her both personally and professionally - as well as how intellectually satisfying & rewarding she found it), when I was teaching, I loved to teach "second-chance" students, or night degree students: In my experience, they were more motivated, interested and enthusiastic than the day students. Much busier, too - they had wives, husbands, partners, jobs, children, sometimes mortgages, and they worked exceptionally hard - terrific students, I had huge respect for them, and it was a privilege and a pleasure to teach them.
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I’ll finally finish my Bachelor’s in Business Administration, with an eye to a Master’s in Public Administration. I started a few years ago after obtaining my Associate’s and stopped due to... life. Now that my kids are grown ups, and now that both my wife and I have safe jobs making pretty decent money, it’s time to get back on track especially since I am not too old (40).
@Scepticalscribe your mother is an inspiration! I guess I’ll follow her path!
Mother studied Politics, Economics, Sociology, Psychology, and - I think - this was the 70s, and the teachers were enthuiasts, informed and really passionate about second chance education - Industrial Relations and Public Administration may also have featured as topics for a term or two.
Anyway, Mother was one of only two women in a class of around 40 or 50 men, and she headed out to attend classes three nights a week for a number of years, while my father - who was utterly supportive of her and very proud of her - stayed at home and kept an eye on us, (supervising homework, among other things) on those nights.
She always said that she loved the whole experience of studying as an adult. One of the (then) young men who taught her - who later became a full professor of economics, - turned up at her funeral, and told me that he vividly and warmly recalled her passion for learning, endless questions, dedication, enthusiasm and intelligence.
Actually, she also said that while she never actually used her degree, it did give her confidence in herself, so that when her boss (a wonderful man) died suddenly, several years after she had been conferred, and she was asked to consider replacing him, or, rather, succeeding him, she felt that she had both the confidence (thanks to her studies) and the experience (she had already worked for almost two decades in that position and so knew the work exceptionally well), and thus, she felt able to consider it and accept the position - a major promotion (which she filled for over a decade until she retired).
Anyway, the very best of luck with it.
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My mother also did a Law degree in the evenings as well as work part time.
And I bet that she loved it.
I loved teaching evening students:
They were so interested, so dedicated, so motivated, so full of questions, so hard-working - and they had jobs, partners, spouses, children, so many demands on their time.
The contrast with the day students (some of them - granted, by no means all of them) - the more usual college students in their late teens or early twenties, some of whom were lazy, entitled, privileged, disinterested - was both stark and very striking.
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I believe she did. She’s retired now of course but I think she had a rewarding career.
Very inspiring, for real. I am not looking forward at being very busy, but your stories make me confident that it will all be worthwhile (after all, it’s up to me, and it’s not only about the piece of paper).
It will be worthwhile, becasue you will want it to be worthwhile.
You (and not your parents, or your peer group) have chosen to undertake this course of study, and that - in itself - will supply sufficient motivation.
Happy Belated Birthday @Scepticalscribe 🥳
and congratulations @yaxomoxay on returning to school. 🙂 I hope to go back to complete my Bachelors too once I am working full time.
Some good news here: I am in process of interviewing for a contract job at another outsourcing company. Happily, it’s a remote position. At least two interviews to go. I am confident I will be hired.🙂
Mom is unfortunately about the same pain-wise.
Me, just trying to keep sane (drawing and writing again).
I hope everyone here is okay.🤗
and congratulations @yaxomoxay on returning to school. 🙂 I hope to go back to complete my Bachelors too once I am working full time.
Some good news here: I am in process of interviewing for a contract job at another outsourcing company. Happily, it’s a remote position. At least two interviews to go. I am confident I will be hired.🙂
Mom is unfortunately about the same pain-wise.
Me, just trying to keep sane (drawing and writing again).
I hope everyone here is okay.🤗
The very best of luck with the position that you are interviewing for; fingers crossed, wood touched, deities discreetly approached.
Thanks! I hope you had a lovely day yesterday.
Two days ago, actually.
But, thank you for your kind good wishes.
Despite celebrating - or, acknowledging, saluting - such a day in solitary splendour, (yes, it would have been nice to ahve friends and/or family present) it was a pleasant and very agreeably spent day.
I'm a bit behind here.....
Congratulations, and good move, Yaxomoxay, on going back to school! You will probably appreciate it much more and get significantly more benefits from it than if you'd done this years ago -- this applies to both of you guys, since I'm quoting and responding to Kazmac's post.
Kazmac, it's good to hear from you and to learn that you're in the process of interviewing for a new job which seems to be promising and that you feel pretty confident that you'll be getting! Fingers crossed, hoping all continues to go well with that!
And, yes, it would be good for you to be able to return to school when you can, too, to complete your Bachelor's degree, which can be helpful in a number of ways in the job market, but as you've already seen, isn't an absolute necessity and it's apparent that people do manage to acquire positions in and work in many successful ventures even without a formal degree. Keep us posted on everything!
Apparently, a little easter egg I put in a MR render back in October is causing some bizarre Twitter controversy. People are interpreting it as a slight against a prominent Apple leaker. Super weird.
I seriously love what you do. Your ability to put a smile on people is a gift to all humanity.
Thanks a lot! It's a privilege and a pleasure.
