Son Goku
No lover of dogma
- Joined
- 14 Jun 2004
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Well I've graduated from one of my majors (not official until the 15th, but 2 teachers have already mentioned what the grades would be on the current semester, and there's no way I could have gotten less then a B in the third class, regardless the grade on the final test we took).
I had some less then fun issues the past 1 to 2 weeks, which I've mentioned elsewhere, but not sure I want to get into it all again, but ranged from old and slow comps that weren't configured right, to a teacher who got peeved that a student should have helped his classmates and got him fired before thoroughly trashing one of the comp labs (the Friday preceeding the last week of classes) much to the chagrin of the person who had to spend several days fixing it all. I finished the last one on Friday.
Pretty much crashed, much of this weekend; though from here, dunno what will happen. In the past I've been concurrently enrolled in 2 majors at 2 seperate colleges. The plan was to get a degree, and from there I should be able to get some sorta employment, that hopefully would work around school schedules and allow me to continue with the other degree.
All said, when I started in school, the ecconomy was much better then it is now, and the pay rates that people had been getting for the major I'm graduating from has been under-cut... Undercut to the point I might have to look at something like a 50-60 hour work week in addition to school, to get where I would have had to do much less for several years ago. Not even sure if I could manage quite such a busy day, let along if I can find something that will accomodate continuing school. As to what's even available, job wise around here, I'm shall I say a bit nervious. New Mexico hasn't exactly been one of the ecconomic hot spots in the country, and things aren't better then what they were back in the late 1990s-early 2000s.
Looking at recent figures (as opposed to what I was seeing when I enrolled) people were starting out at only $10.75/hour and considering a 40 hour week are making $8,000/year less on average, then just what was reported only a couple years ago.
I ended up telling my parents (who had in part helped with my getting through school thus far) that looking at the current prospects, I'm not sure I could land a job now where I could take on all my expenses, and realistically, given the change with current statistics being reported, it doesn't look likely. They're saying now that if I can take on the rent and daily expenses, they could still cover the rest. At least that looks likely with what's getting reported as available.
Obviously career advancement is going to be an absolute necessity, just to hit something I can subsist on (not to mention I do have financial aid loans, and at 33 haven't yet been able to look at setting anything aside for retirement with my savings used up having been in school). And I'd rather not have to drop out of getting the other degree, which should also help qualify me for something even better paying, down the road... tbh, I'm not sure what will happen now...
I had some less then fun issues the past 1 to 2 weeks, which I've mentioned elsewhere, but not sure I want to get into it all again, but ranged from old and slow comps that weren't configured right, to a teacher who got peeved that a student should have helped his classmates and got him fired before thoroughly trashing one of the comp labs (the Friday preceeding the last week of classes) much to the chagrin of the person who had to spend several days fixing it all. I finished the last one on Friday.
Pretty much crashed, much of this weekend; though from here, dunno what will happen. In the past I've been concurrently enrolled in 2 majors at 2 seperate colleges. The plan was to get a degree, and from there I should be able to get some sorta employment, that hopefully would work around school schedules and allow me to continue with the other degree.
All said, when I started in school, the ecconomy was much better then it is now, and the pay rates that people had been getting for the major I'm graduating from has been under-cut... Undercut to the point I might have to look at something like a 50-60 hour work week in addition to school, to get where I would have had to do much less for several years ago. Not even sure if I could manage quite such a busy day, let along if I can find something that will accomodate continuing school. As to what's even available, job wise around here, I'm shall I say a bit nervious. New Mexico hasn't exactly been one of the ecconomic hot spots in the country, and things aren't better then what they were back in the late 1990s-early 2000s.
Looking at recent figures (as opposed to what I was seeing when I enrolled) people were starting out at only $10.75/hour and considering a 40 hour week are making $8,000/year less on average, then just what was reported only a couple years ago.
I ended up telling my parents (who had in part helped with my getting through school thus far) that looking at the current prospects, I'm not sure I could land a job now where I could take on all my expenses, and realistically, given the change with current statistics being reported, it doesn't look likely. They're saying now that if I can take on the rent and daily expenses, they could still cover the rest. At least that looks likely with what's getting reported as available.
Obviously career advancement is going to be an absolute necessity, just to hit something I can subsist on (not to mention I do have financial aid loans, and at 33 haven't yet been able to look at setting anything aside for retirement with my savings used up having been in school). And I'd rather not have to drop out of getting the other degree, which should also help qualify me for something even better paying, down the road... tbh, I'm not sure what will happen now...