I'm thinking about going back to college, any advice?

by zagor 19 Replies latest jw friends

  • zagor
    zagor

    I think it would be great final chapter in my healing process, and would love to catch up with my life anyway (most of guys of my generation have finished it long ago and have kids). I'm interested in science and engineering, but I'm afraid my mind my have become too dull over many years of brain washing. Social sciences sound great too but I’m not sure if I like them enough to pursue such degree to the end.

    I also love business but wouldn’t have a clue where to start.

    I would imagine many of you have had same dilemma at some stage, what did you do? And how far did you go with your education?

    any advice would be welcome.

  • el jarocho mayor
    el jarocho mayor

    GO FOR IT!!!!!!

  • jeanniebeanz
    jeanniebeanz

    Hi, there.

    Yes, I went back to college after leaving dubville. It was hard balancing earning a living, family and school and it took me 6 years to complete but was worth it. I don't know what field you are working in right now. What do you do for a living? Just in general, I mean.

    J

  • zagor
    zagor

    Worked in call centre, then after that taught myself how to work with computers - which I'm doing now. Some programming and web design but really can't see myself as doing it for the rest of my life. I see it as causing me to withdraw even more from outside world.

    I’m also interested in business and love to work with people.

  • EvilForce
    EvilForce

    In this day and age you will have to assume you will be needing to go to college or other school for the rest of your life to keep your skills up-to-date. Go for it!!!

  • jeanniebeanz
    jeanniebeanz

    Well, I'd start with meeting with a Junior College counselor at a JC that has a transfer program to a University. Go meet with that counselor and let them know what your business interests are. Many times, you will find that the 'core' requirements for several four year degrees of interest share the same core classes.

    Set up a schedule to take a couple classes and see how you do. Junior Colleges are much less expensive than just going directly to university for all of them. If you go after a four-year degree, taking the first two years at a JC and then transfering your associates degree to a university can save you a good 25K on the cost of your bachelors.

    Jeannie

  • EvilForce
    EvilForce

    Zagor...I love the avatar btw

  • zagor
    zagor

    thanx el jarocho mayor, thanx EvilForce.

    love your posts EF. :) and you hat avatar :)

  • zagor
    zagor

    Thanx Jeannie, thats not a bad idea actually.

  • zulukai
    zulukai

    I was enrolled in college four months after I left Borgville. I had two young kids to raise and a burning rage to get as far away from those depressed, under-educated dumbed down weirdos as I could. You might be surprised to find out you're a lot smarter than you think you are. I went for a battery of IQ and aptitude tests arranged by a Canadian government workforce agency, alas long since gone...but was that ever an eyeopening experience for me. Perhaps you could find similar help as has been suggested by Jeannie at a college, at an education fair. I look back on the years I spent in college getting a real education as a life altering experience. My mind and my intellect just began to grow like a starved thing..which in fact it WAS...I wonder why?? LOL Go for it and see if you don't agree. You may find as I did that you have many talents and many gifts and thank God you have a second chance for life. I knew several bright, promising young people in that cult who have sunk into do-nothing, go-no-where lives and I pity them. I took unbelievable verbal abuse about going to college, and especially about becoming a nurse. But, I have walked on the Silk Road, stood on a desert plain strewn with petrified wood from the dawn of the world's beginning, seen the "howling wilderness" spoken of in Deuteronomy, camped in starlight on the landlocked skeleton of a coral reef in an ancient Arab kingdom far, far from home. This is the real meaning of EDUCATION....these are the windows that open once you close the door to the prison of Borgville. Go for it !!!!

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