I have an 2 years college to become an auto mechanic, prior to sz. Then I took some random classes. I am currently working not in my field .
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I’m getting my Master’s degree in industrial-organizational psychology now. I have my BA in psychology (got that while in remission).
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I check the “some college” box on questionnaires. A few years of junior college and about a year at an art university. I wasn’t able to finish. But I’ve almost always worked.
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I have Masters, I did my Masters’ thesis in America (a weird thing it was), I have also studies at one business school in America, language studies in Leningrad … long time has passed …
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I don’t have one.
I finished 10 grade, which is semi-mandatory in my country, and I finished 11th grade in another country, but it doesn’t give me any merit here.
I really want an education and I’ve tried a gazillion times, but I just can’t seem to finish one :’(
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I have two associate of applied science degrees. One is in human resource management, the other in criminal justice.
I got them both before I got sick, and while I was in the military.
I want to finish my bachelors in either philosophy, addictions and recovery, or something in the social sciences.
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I went to elementary school and finished
I went to Jr high and failed 7th grade
Went to summer school and we moved
Then I quit High School in the middle of the 11th grade
and went to work. Some year’s later got my G.E.D.
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High school…
Tried college twice.
First time, I didn’t last but one day in class. Freaked out to say the least and had to drop out.
Second time, I didn’t even make it past orientation.
Working part-time with certain accommodations is about all I can do with myself, in relation to the “real” world.
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10th grade was as far as my sz let me go…got ged a month later… required top secret clearance for my next schooling was a year and some long… am 1 month short and 1 test of being an industrial, home and green electrician… sz let me finish eod…but not high school or electrician training…
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But I always tell everyone about my education…
I have a BS from the State University of New York in Cultural Studies with a concentration in Communications.
And an MA from Western New Mexico University in Interdisciplinary Studies: my major concentration is in writing and my minor concentration is in Management Information Systems.
I’m at WNMU now working on a grad certificate in English - that way I shouldn’t have trouble teaching writing at the college level if I choose to.
All of this was done online with the exception of about 18 transfer credits from a junior college in Southern California.
I worked most of the time from age 16-29 and then started school. I decided I couldn’t do both and that education would help me most in the long run, so I quit my job waiting tables and went to school full-time. Now that seven years have passed and I am basically done with school, I am working on getting back to work.
All of my jobs were before my degrees and have been random I also used to have a couple of jobs at once:
Caretaker - hospice and elder care (6 years or so)
Retail - Rite Aid and a gift shop (1 year)
Production Manager/graphics shop (3 years)
Laser engraver (3-4 years)
Receptionist (1 year)
Tile setter’s helper (1 year)
Pizza delivery, phone solicitation, cleaner (not very long)
Food service (waitress, prep., etc. - 3.5 years)
Tutor (at least 4 years, but not sure)
Etc.
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I have two college degrees that are doing me no good now unfortunately but who knows what will happen…
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I have an a degree in molecular physics and one in rocket scientry from the university of south central Los Angeles
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I have a BA in textiles and dropped out of my MA in illustration. Hoping to apply again to a MA again at the same art school.
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I mean apply to the same MA i did before I dropped out of it.
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I have a four year degree in Architecture. graduated from Oklahoma University in 1990. designed furniture and store fronts a while before settling into doing residential design for ten years…then I got sick and it was all over. It was hard for me to accept that because I put myself through college…worked really hard…oh well. I still have my degree on the wall and as my grandmother said, “they can’t ever take that from you.”
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thanks for this thread 5713. i enjoyed reading the posts.
judy
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I was doing fine in school, and then i was murdered.
That’s it.
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I have a master’s degree in physics. Should add that I tried to go for a phd but I didn’t do to well on the gre and also the psychotic break happened.
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skipped school all the time in Junior High, dropped out of High School in 10th grade and recently started attending Community College (30 years later). I am in my third quarter. Going well so far.
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I have my grade 12, a computer service technician diploma and I am currently taking an office administration course on-line. I ended up in the hospital for not taking my meds during my first practicum as a computer tech then I never got hired during my second attempt so I just decided to work at a hotel and ended up staying there for 5 years. My schooling ended up being outdated after that so I ended up going to school for that for nothing.
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