Crippling self doubt! (aka starting college at 40!)

[dfrecore]

Just an update and a word of advice to anyone else.

Don't take a break if you don't have truly need to take one. I am finding it nearly impossible to get motivated. I still can't believe that I completed 66 credits in ~2 months. I could have been done by now (aside from the final credits I need from TESU). I know that it would have been a nightmare if I had kept taking classes but I should have just done the minimum 2 per month at SDC during that time.

Now it feels like I'm starting from the beginning where I didn't know where to start! I had paused my SDC membership in April and went to extend it again recently and found that it's already maxed out. I believe you can only pause it for 90 days at a time. It will start again in July, otherwise I'll have to cancel it.

I'm going to start back with the TEEX Death Investigation course, hopefully today, and then be back in the swing of things come July.

I wanted to say thank you, again, to everyone here for their words of wisdom and encouragement. I couldn't have gotten this far without you all.

I don't think this is good advice for everyone.  I took breaks because I just didn't have the money to continue.  I also took breaks when life got in the way, and I couldn't concentrate on schoolwork.  I took breaks when my kids had summer vacation, because I wanted to spend more time with them.  There are lots of good reasons to take breaks.  I sometimes found that after a nice break, I was recharged and refreshed and ready to start again with renewed enthusiasm.  That's the nice thing about doing college this way - you get to fit it into your life instead of the other way around (and being chained to a particular school's academic calendar).