Feel free to move if this isn't in the right forum..
Long story short, I've made a mess of my college career. It took me around 6 years to graduate with a BS in Psychology ( I took a few years off to work) and I decided I wanted to go into the medical field after getting injured on a job working construction. Well, now i'm learning that my sub-par gpa of 2.7 from years of partying won't be good enough to get into even cheap local CC's for Nursing..And i'm not even 100% sure I want to go down that route anyway.
I've always loved weather and never considered meteorology a career. But..Looking at that career path, i'd have to do another 3 years in school to complete that degree, and graduate to a job with very low pay (45k avg coming out of school). I feel like i've absolutely trashed my college career. I think of myself as an intelligent person, but my goodness i've been indecisive and now i'm 60k in debt unhappy with where i'm going and thinking that the career path that would make me happy might incur another 60 grand that would take me half my life to pay off.
You realistically cannot work full time and take classes along with paying off your tuition in this day and age. Courses have gotten insanely expensive. I roll my eyes when I hear my parents say "well why don't you ever work and pay off your college bills? as if making 10.00 an hour barely working 30 hours a week is going to pay off a $7,000 tuition bill. All while trying to pay for your apartment, electricity, gas, food, cell phone, etc.
Maybe I should just settle with nursing so that I can actually make a little money to pay off my debts.
I'm 26 years old, think of myself as a happy person..but gosh it's hard not to get depressed sometimes. Maybe this is the "quarter life crisis" everyone speaks of. I don't really have any friends as they've all moved off and started their lives and feel like I never have any time to set up friendships because I'm always too busy trying to work or take classes.
Anyone else feel this way?
Sorry about the rant...rant...over!
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