Over 30 & in school?
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How are you managing to do that? I know teens do that, but they have parents paying while they try to "find themselves" and parents find their money going away.
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I always thought that after my son graduated high school I would go back to school and get a degree. However, I just dont see myself doing that now. My hubby and I make a pretty good combined income and I really dont want to work and go to school and have no time for anything else. Of course, I could still change my mind but at 40, I just dont see that happening.
If I WERE to go back to school it would be to become a medical technologist.
If I WERE to go back to school it would be to become a medical technologist.
I've been living off my savings. I don't have a social life which helped me save up money at my last job. But my money is going to run out in a month or 2 and I'll need help w/ funds.
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I am 32 and I just graduated with my Bachelors of Science
Are you planning to become a professor when this is over?I'm 31, almost 32. I'm a Ph.D. student, majoring in History. I've been in school almost constantly since I was four years old.
Have a nice day,
Kelly
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heh a co worker of mine majored in History and now realizes she can not do Shiet with her degree besides work at a museum.
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I just turned 30 and I'm thinking of going back. I'm interested in web design or graphic design.
I think my brother had a similar view, holding the title of more degrees from the University of Wisconsin -- Madison than anyone else ever. There are about a dozen who come in one degree short of his record, but some of them are dead which takes them out of the running to beat him.
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If they keep giving me money to keep learning and teaching, then why not?
Have a nice day,
Kelly
I guess we all have different ideas of fun. School definitely isn't my idea of fun. And where would I go next with a BS in finance. Ironically, UW-Madison offers a masters program in securities analysis so that one can learn to pick investments and become a manager of a mutual fund, pension fund, or hedge fund. It's ironic because everything taught in undergrad finance courses tells you that markets are efficient and that such active management is a fool's errand, yet I guess you're supposed to forget all that in grad school. Then one can go on to get a PhD in finance and endlessly study market anomalies that show the market isn't really efficient, but that aren't at all likely to allow you to beat the market on a risk adjusted basis, so you can have a ton of education and like so many financial economists -- including Nobel laureates -- conclude that it's best to simply invest in a diversified collection of index funds. Boy, that's a lot of work to come to such an exceedingly simple answer.
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I'm 30 next year, I've been in school (uni) since 2002... I'm doing my master's in aeronautic engineering but it's been 3 years already and I'm not getting any closer to finishing my thesis.
The problem is I'm not getting any stipends now (in fact I started paying tuition myself...). I really need to get my act together and get a job regardless of whether or not I graduate.
The problem is I'm not getting any stipends now (in fact I started paying tuition myself...). I really need to get my act together and get a job regardless of whether or not I graduate.
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I would like to try and get into college, but I really have no idea where to start. Nor do I have any idea what I would like to get a degree in. And the very idea of being around that many people my age all day scares the hell out of me. It's one of the reasons I never went after HS in the first place.
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