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[burbuja0512]

I'm still here, no worries.

That hurricane took a little bit out of me. A bit of cleaning up had to be done.

I also found a job.... 2 days/week @ a whopping $8.50/hour... And I'm still looking. My problem is working a non-steady shift will totally throw off my concentration on schooling. (It has before.) And I'm barely, if at all, going to be able to pay October's bills. Wonderful.

Times like this make everything in life suck just a little bit more.

Look at it this way. Almost everyone on this site has lots of other stuff going on. I have 5 kids and I work full time and I travel for work quite frequently, typically in the Spring and Fall.

TRUST ME there is nothing tougher than ending a full day's work only to have to figure out whether it's my night to cook while DH watches the kids or vice versa. Then after dealing with my youngest's teething issues and taking the dogs for a walk with kids in tow, bathing kids, reading stories, brushing teeth and getting them to bed, THEN I am TOTALLY and utterly exhausted. Oh yeah.. and then when I would rather be sleeping or doing a million other things, I have to start studying.

I'm not trivializing the way you feel and understand that studying can really suck. Life in general can really suck.. but trust me, it will be a lot worse without the piece of paper and its accompanying benefits than it will once you've got the B.S. behind your name.


I have a copy of this picture on my desk: Construction Workers Take a Lunch Break on a Steel Beam Atop the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center Photographic Print at AllPosters.com

Click on the link and take a look at it. It'll show you construction workers taking a lunch break. I have had this picture framed and on my desk for several years now and my DH got it for me when I was having a particularly rough time at work. If you feel like your day is horrible and everything sucks, take a look at what other people have to go through. No matter how bad my life is, it isn't nearly as difficult as what those construction workers had to deal with.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you have two choices: 1) suck it up and get it done, realizing that your life isn't easy, but most people's isn't either OR 2) Wallow in self-pity and stop studying while you complain about your job and zone out in front of the TV or XBOX in your free time.