Hi guys, long time no see
Things are much the same as always. I'm doing semi-badly in school, I'm vaguely angsty about living out my life as an old maid, and I still have no idea what I'm actually going to do with these degrees that I'm getting. I have little to no interest in web programming and little to no skill with programming in anything but scheme and C variants. As of yet, I also have little to no skill in circuit design and analysis. I'm hoping the next 2 years of electronics classes will change that.
School really, really blows. I want to just get married and say screw it all. Maybe I'll drop out of college and join knitting clubs and take cooking lessons. I just don't feel like I'm really suzie homemaker type either. Bleh.
I could get A's if I cared enough. If I do that though, I will have to entirely sacrifice my social life. I'm not talking about my "social life" as in my free time to game, though I would have to sacrifice that too. I'm talking about hanging out with people and going places on the weekends and having fun. Someone tell me what to do.
School really, really blows. I want to just get married and say screw it all. Maybe I'll drop out of college and join knitting clubs and take cooking lessons. I just don't feel like I'm really suzie homemaker type either. Bleh.
I could get A's if I cared enough. If I do that though, I will have to entirely sacrifice my social life. I'm not talking about my "social life" as in my free time to game, though I would have to sacrifice that too. I'm talking about hanging out with people and going places on the weekends and having fun. Someone tell me what to do.
posted by Brooke at 3:46 PM
11 Comments:
CS352... and some 367
Drop out temporarily and work full time so that you can be reminded how much worse that is than school.
I would probably kill someone to go back to school right now.
But... I actually enjoyed working full time much more than school. I think you have the wrong kind of job.
Also, I recommend master's program application. As opposed to the whole murder thing.
I like the murder thing.
Also, if you don't like what you're doing you should perhaps not do it. Get a degree in something useless instead, like english or archæology
I can't even conceive of a job that I wouldn't hate far more than school, much less find one and then get it.
I'd have say that it may be true that a job you hate more than school may be the wrong job (at least long term), spending time and money on school that you hate is probably worse, especially if you don't want to use the stuff that you're studying to get a job you actually like.
It's not that I don't think I'll like a job that I get from this... quite the opposite. It's that I don't feel like I'm learning it well enough to do good work *at* such a job. And that's entirely my fault, I just suck at school.
But shouldn't your field of study be interesting and engaging? Regardless of whether you're getting money or not? I mean, if it's not engaging enough to learn it well to do well at a job, then at the very least these programs aren't a good fit for you, irrespective of whether the field(s) are one(s) you want to go into.
Ask me what happened on Tuesday.
Well . . . as someone who is doing a full-time job in the same field I'm studying in school, I would say don't worry about skill. There are skills that you can learn on the job that you will never learn in school. If you like the field and would be happy working in it, I'd recommend finishing your degree, painful as that is. Then you can get a job in your field and pick up the skills that you need. The way our society works, that piece of paper is just an annoying but necessary step.
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