I’ve done my pros and cons,
Not sure if I should go.
Please any advice? I would love to delay it another year, but letting people down and performing the sick role again isn’t pleasing.
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What will happen when you drop out? Will you be stuck with loans you or someone else will have to repay?
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I got a degree after developing sza. It can be done.
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I was psychotic all through my second degree. When I graduated and started working I did 3 months and went on disability. The voices, delusions, and hallucinations finally broke me. That was 8 years ago. Things wax and wane. I have good days and bad days. I had to give up my 2 medical licenses (RN and nuclear medicine) because the voices were 24/7, I couldn’t concentrate enough to do the continuing education. The voices now are more sporadic. I’ve been paying student loan debt for 27.5 years. My debt will be paid off this May. My buddy makes as much money as I was making with just a highschool diploma. He works in a chemical factory. They trained him on the job. People at Costco are making $30 an hour. My buddy has a union where he works, after 90 days he was in. Hard to get rid of him now. He got his job at the temp agency and makes $32 an hour. He works hard though. I worked in hospitals they had no union. I would never recommend working in a hospital. I did 12 years. I hated it and everyone I talked to hated their job, they just liked the people. Student loan debt is no joke. A lot of jobs out there with no job security. When the economy turns bad and they gotta do cuts you might only get 30 hours. Seen it in healthcare. Meeting quotas. It’s all a gamble. Only you can decide what’s best for you. Good luck.
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I’ve done some certificate programs. First dental assisting. Worked in the dental field for 2 years and found out I hated it. Now recently I did university for medical coding. It was a 11 month program. Make sure for certain you won’t drop out because then you’d be stuck with the debt without the degree.
You could look into trade school or certificate programs that are shorter than typical 4 year degree so they’re less intimidating and lots of programs transfer into a bachelor degree program.
For example the certificate program I just did last year, all the credits transfer into a bachelor’s program if I decide to further my education however I can utilize the certification in the meantime.
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I dropped out 13 years ago. I couldn’t do the work. I was a math major. It was hard. I don’t think I can do it again. I feel a lot dumber now. I can’t risk the debt or loans. I don’t think I can even work, so what’s the point of college? I tried.
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I think higher education is all memorization. Pump and dump. Learn a lot of crap, cram for tests, then forget it till finals. Even critical thinking in mathematics is memorizing formulas and when to apply them. The doctors I’ve talked to forgot 80 percent of what they learned. I use to think being college educated made you better intellectually than someone who wasn’t, but now I think at a certain age where people experience a lot of what life has to offer in terms of life experience learning and not learning becomes a zero sum game. It’s all probability and chance. If you can survive and look your self in the mirror everyday and carry on it doesn’t matter what you do in life.
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Depends if academics work well for you or not. Im just not geared towards doing academics, im too slow, id have to do 1 course at a time.
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I never regretted doing my degree
Make sure you get in touch with support services
It will stay with you forever
Even if you just do that and nothing else
The independent style of learning really suited me
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I haven’t thought about dropping out. That’s a good point. Currently I am comfortable financially which is why I want to prolong in going. It’ll be good for me though
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I would also say that the worry is how much it’ll cost you if you drop out. Even if the odds are favourable you won’t, you have to factor that cost because it’s awful when you have a degree not worth the debt it costs (my first degree was such a case)
I couldn’t progress to masters in economics bc my degree was awarded under extenuating circumstances
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I am 55 years old and still think to study food and nutrition. It would be only to boost my self-esteem. By the time I finish the course I would be 61 years old or so, but it would give me something to live and look forward to.
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