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the future is closer than you think
Oct. 12th, 2007 10:03 amThere has been great change in my educational lineup since leaving the 40 hour job - all of it good.
1. I signed up for an English Internship which brought me to 12 hrs (full-time) without really requiring the studying time of a full class load.
2. The economic pain of keeping me out of the full workforce and my greater available time made it worthwhile to at least try the calculations of condensing my coursework to drop the last semester.
3. Then, I got into a grad class (yes, I am still bouncing about this) which will also count for ENG honors. That only takes away one course from my new last semester (Fall '08), but it means that I can tuck my last PE requirement into next semester and move my science requirement to my last semester and Hey Presto! I do not need to take any classes during summer.
This puts me into a brief economic quandary. My little jobs do not pay as much as Sylvia's preschool or her summer camp at the same location. As someone who chose to stay at home to avoid this specific economic paradox, it causes me brief moments of angst until I remember that she is in school so that I can go to school. Also, at this age, she really needs to be there more than she needs to be at home with me. I could try to find a full-time, appropriate income level job and put Miss Sylvia into summer camp, but frankly, I don't want any more jobs in the fields that would give me an appropriate income[1].
So... I am going to stay home with Sylvia this summer and begin practicing the profession(s) that I have been in school for all this time. Despite how very hard I have worked for this, and all the sacrifices that the family and I have made for this, I am terrified that I am going to absolutely blow it.
This summer, I will be looking for freelance translation and writing assignments. I will also have more time for writing poems and working on personal projects, but I see this very much as a dry run. Technically, if I earn more than $-200 a month I'll be doing better than I am right now, but that is not really the right way to view this.
After the summer, I will have one last semester of school (if all goes as planned) and then I will be back in the real world for good. By this point, Sylvia will be in kindergarten which will take a tremendous economic burden off of our shoulders.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
h_postmortemus has made it clear that he is supportive and understands there will be an adjustment time... but also that if I can not pull in comparable sums to what I was making without a degree, that it is back to the office for me. I know that my options will be much more varied and interesting with a degree, but I am still going to avoid that at all costs.
So... wish me luck. I have done a great deal of market research, but if you hear of any situations which require a French translator or general wordsmith, please let me know.
The poetry gig... that's for me. I hope to be completing a chapbook for my Honors Thesis and I will do my best to as incredible as possible. Then I'll work on the next one, and the next one, and the next one until I get it right.
[1]I'm not going to go into numbers, but the internship & tutoring jobs earn me roughly half what I could in customer service, insurance or any one of a number of clerical/administrative jobs. It would be relatively easy for me to get a management position at this point if I had any interest in that at all.
1. I signed up for an English Internship which brought me to 12 hrs (full-time) without really requiring the studying time of a full class load.
2. The economic pain of keeping me out of the full workforce and my greater available time made it worthwhile to at least try the calculations of condensing my coursework to drop the last semester.
3. Then, I got into a grad class (yes, I am still bouncing about this) which will also count for ENG honors. That only takes away one course from my new last semester (Fall '08), but it means that I can tuck my last PE requirement into next semester and move my science requirement to my last semester and Hey Presto! I do not need to take any classes during summer.
This puts me into a brief economic quandary. My little jobs do not pay as much as Sylvia's preschool or her summer camp at the same location. As someone who chose to stay at home to avoid this specific economic paradox, it causes me brief moments of angst until I remember that she is in school so that I can go to school. Also, at this age, she really needs to be there more than she needs to be at home with me. I could try to find a full-time, appropriate income level job and put Miss Sylvia into summer camp, but frankly, I don't want any more jobs in the fields that would give me an appropriate income[1].
So... I am going to stay home with Sylvia this summer and begin practicing the profession(s) that I have been in school for all this time. Despite how very hard I have worked for this, and all the sacrifices that the family and I have made for this, I am terrified that I am going to absolutely blow it.
This summer, I will be looking for freelance translation and writing assignments. I will also have more time for writing poems and working on personal projects, but I see this very much as a dry run. Technically, if I earn more than $-200 a month I'll be doing better than I am right now, but that is not really the right way to view this.
After the summer, I will have one last semester of school (if all goes as planned) and then I will be back in the real world for good. By this point, Sylvia will be in kindergarten which will take a tremendous economic burden off of our shoulders.
h_postmortemus has made it clear that he is supportive and understands there will be an adjustment time... but also that if I can not pull in comparable sums to what I was making without a degree, that it is back to the office for me. I know that my options will be much more varied and interesting with a degree, but I am still going to avoid that at all costs. So... wish me luck. I have done a great deal of market research, but if you hear of any situations which require a French translator or general wordsmith, please let me know.
The poetry gig... that's for me. I hope to be completing a chapbook for my Honors Thesis and I will do my best to as incredible as possible. Then I'll work on the next one, and the next one, and the next one until I get it right.
[1]I'm not going to go into numbers, but the internship & tutoring jobs earn me roughly half what I could in customer service, insurance or any one of a number of clerical/administrative jobs. It would be relatively easy for me to get a management position at this point if I had any interest in that at all.