12-22-2013, 10:32 PM
Holy cheezits, these are fantastic responses! Thank you so much!!
ejcompere - I also liked the illustration/animation option but the schools that I liked were all too expensive. My parents want me to get a more "useful" degree anyway. I still hold out hope that one day I can get a degree in illustration or find a program that I really like and pay for it myself.
UptonSinclair - I considered that too! I love working with animals (except for euthanasia, puts me in tears) but I can't find any local programs for them and the ones I do find put me into debt up to my eyeballs.
Getiton1 - Holy moses, your answers have been an incredibly huge help. There's a local community college that has an LPN program which is what I was looking at. I had no idea that Excelsior wouldn't take me if I didn't have it. :/
I'm keeping the nursing option as a back up plan. Apart from artistic fields, I don't have any other interests. I have no idea what I'm good at and the only thing my mom says she could see me doing is working at a convalescent home because she thinks I work well with older people (to be honest, I'm worried about upsetting them so I tread lightly). My dad wants me to come work with him at his airport job that he doesn't like anymore.
After reading through this thread about people getting degrees based on what they see on TV.....I can understand it. It's the only thing you "know" about a certain profession. You've, supposedly, seen it in action, it's your one point of reference in the abyss that is figuring out what degree for what job in the unpredictable future.
I have spent years researching jobs but articles and statistics...they don't cover the emotional aspect of the jobs, the heart of the work, sometimes they don't even cover the REAL work! They'll give you a brief, happy synopsis of a positive sounding job and you're hooked because it sounds so easy.
That's what's frustrated for so much over the past few weeks: how can you know what job you want to do when you haven't actually done it? How can you know that nursing is what you want to pursue for two, four, etc. years when you haven't cared for a single patient and you CAN'T care for a single patient until you have that degree under your belt? It's all skewed around to make no sense.
Anyway, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU soooooo much!
ejcompere - I also liked the illustration/animation option but the schools that I liked were all too expensive. My parents want me to get a more "useful" degree anyway. I still hold out hope that one day I can get a degree in illustration or find a program that I really like and pay for it myself.
UptonSinclair - I considered that too! I love working with animals (except for euthanasia, puts me in tears) but I can't find any local programs for them and the ones I do find put me into debt up to my eyeballs.
Getiton1 - Holy moses, your answers have been an incredibly huge help. There's a local community college that has an LPN program which is what I was looking at. I had no idea that Excelsior wouldn't take me if I didn't have it. :/
I'm keeping the nursing option as a back up plan. Apart from artistic fields, I don't have any other interests. I have no idea what I'm good at and the only thing my mom says she could see me doing is working at a convalescent home because she thinks I work well with older people (to be honest, I'm worried about upsetting them so I tread lightly). My dad wants me to come work with him at his airport job that he doesn't like anymore.
After reading through this thread about people getting degrees based on what they see on TV.....I can understand it. It's the only thing you "know" about a certain profession. You've, supposedly, seen it in action, it's your one point of reference in the abyss that is figuring out what degree for what job in the unpredictable future.
I have spent years researching jobs but articles and statistics...they don't cover the emotional aspect of the jobs, the heart of the work, sometimes they don't even cover the REAL work! They'll give you a brief, happy synopsis of a positive sounding job and you're hooked because it sounds so easy.
That's what's frustrated for so much over the past few weeks: how can you know what job you want to do when you haven't actually done it? How can you know that nursing is what you want to pursue for two, four, etc. years when you haven't cared for a single patient and you CAN'T care for a single patient until you have that degree under your belt? It's all skewed around to make no sense.
Anyway, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU soooooo much!
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