what to do?
here are my options:
1. move home to minnesota, live with my parents and enroll in grad school for social work for the fall of 2006 because i got scared and didn't submit my applications on time for the 2005 deadline. i can work and save up money in the meantime. this would be good because i would have a strong social support network to help my morale. i could also live rent free for a little while. but i would still have to take out loans for school because of the private school aspect.
2. stay here and enroll as early as fall 2005 at UTA. quit my job and find a job in the social work field gaining experience and building my resume. find cheap student housing and/or roommate and just be very poor for a few years. this would be good because i wouldn't have to make another huge move and put my life in another major upheaval. i would still have to take out loans for school, but perhaps not as much because i am a resident and this is a state school.
if anyone reads this and has an opinion whatsoever as to what you might do, please share. this process is so tiring, i am the worst at making huge decisions like this. i just want someone to come along and tell me what to do. of course this won't be the case, but sometimes i think that would be easiest.
now i am going to try to go back to sleep.
1. move home to minnesota, live with my parents and enroll in grad school for social work for the fall of 2006 because i got scared and didn't submit my applications on time for the 2005 deadline. i can work and save up money in the meantime. this would be good because i would have a strong social support network to help my morale. i could also live rent free for a little while. but i would still have to take out loans for school because of the private school aspect.
2. stay here and enroll as early as fall 2005 at UTA. quit my job and find a job in the social work field gaining experience and building my resume. find cheap student housing and/or roommate and just be very poor for a few years. this would be good because i wouldn't have to make another huge move and put my life in another major upheaval. i would still have to take out loans for school, but perhaps not as much because i am a resident and this is a state school.
if anyone reads this and has an opinion whatsoever as to what you might do, please share. this process is so tiring, i am the worst at making huge decisions like this. i just want someone to come along and tell me what to do. of course this won't be the case, but sometimes i think that would be easiest.
now i am going to try to go back to sleep.
posted by preissless at 1:07 AM
4 Comments:
Hello Miss Bean,
I don't know how to advise you on this one, as both options have their goods and bads. I definitely would advise that you do pursue this goal of yours in some manner, because youu would be kick butt in that line of work.
Overall, I really think you just have to figure out where you'll be happiest. It's going to take a bit to work your way through this education process, so you'd better be sure you dig where you are living. Living at your parents would be swell for finances but could infringe on your space after a while, in the sense that you are so used to living alone and independently. Your parents are rad, so maybe it would be a swell situation. Living in Texas would be nice for cheaper tuition, but you need to find a community or neighborhood that fits your personality a little better than the current one. You're a community kinda gal. You need to find your Texas "Muddy Waters" kinda neighborhood if you're going to survive there in the longterm.
Sorry that advice is not definitive. Imagine yourself in each place a year or two years or three years from now, and try to get an intuitive sense as to where you feel healthier at that time. That's the place to go.
Respectfully,
Keeper of the Frogs
madam,
first of all congratulations on the decision for a change. i say that only because i know that it is a very difficult decision and so many people stick with what is comfortable and easy. that said, while the choice is difficult, it is also wonderful to be in that position. when self initiated it seems to always mean positive things lie ahead......
my brief advice would be to choose the locale based on where you have the most reason to be. i have found that I can be anywhere in the world, but what makes the time and place special and memorable [while everything about it may not be ideal] is the people. You can be in the worst (or most incredible place) but your time there can be 100 times better when shared with those that mean the most to you.
whether it be for love, friends, family or your own personal goals, i say always go for it. Unfortunately striving for one usually seems to sacrifice another. however, that time will always be worth it as long as you are happily moving forward.
as i just read that it didn't make a whole lot of sense, but its already typed. damn.
best of luck.
go back to minnesota.....
Stay in Texas
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