That last panel is how I feel having signed my stupid ass up for college at 30.
I'm graduating this month at 31 and my friend, you have made a great decision for yourself! It's incredibly difficult as an adult, but it's going to feel completely worth it when you're at the end. You'll open up a new world of job opportunities, and if you ever have kids or take on a mentor type role for one you will be a living example for them to get through it too. I spent the first two years of college making jokes to my classmates about doing it a decade too late, but now I'm owning it. Those whipper snappers should try doing it alongside a full time job and a kid and a house with a currently flooded basement!
You're going to do great. And, even if you don't do great, all you need to do is PASS. That's okay too!
I joke about it, and I did struggle pretty bad with a stats class (my brain does not math), but honestly, I love it so much. I truly enjoy the learning with classes like anthro, soc, et cetera, and I've got a 3.8 gpa (that damn math class). I'm 2 years in now, and genuinely dreading it ending. I'm seriously considering a master's after this, because I am not ready to be done with school.
I went back at 35. It was very much worth it. What are you taking, if you don't mind me asking?
Originally sociology, because I wanted to go for religious studies but it wasn't offered. I switched over to creative writing a few months ago, because I enjoy storytelling and have been told I'm good at it. My plan is to teach English as a second language, so I need a BA, any BA, to do that. I'm lucky that I'm not stuck into a particular degree path, and I get to do something I enjoy in that way.
Have you graduated? What did you go for?
If you're doing college at 30 you're probably not stupid, stupid people wouldn't do school at all when afforded the chance to. Unless they already have a position in the industry they wanted to and a degree wouldnt help advance their career enough to warrant the time and money spent
30 is young, you still have at least a good 10-20 years of enjoying your life ahead of you right
Also idk about in the US but in a large part of Europe you get paid to do a graduate degree (or at least a PhD), and the courses are often in English, if you want to you should totally look at Germany or Slovakia/Czechia or Norway/Finland (although I think Norway recently made tuition no longer free for foreigners), or even Panama or Brazil, you can get free college and cheap housing (well, not in Scandinavia, but the rest of the countries). You should be able to get in depending on the major's demand, and they're very nice countries to exist in other than Brazil... although Eastern Europe would probably be a massive culture shock, a lot are pretty "blunt" or "dark" in their mannerisms I guess.
I'm my mother's primary care giver, so unless they'll let me bring her along, it probably wouldn't work out. Haha. But if we found an option that allowed for it, I'd jump on it in a heartbeat. Haha
30 is young, you still have at least a good 10-20 years of enjoying your life ahead of you
Fuck, you mean life will stop being enjoyable for me in four years?
Reminds me of that report from earlier this year, how Taliban former warriors were struggling with office work
https://time.com/6263906/taliban-afghanistan-office-work-quiet-quit/
Holy shit, Time can't even do an article about the Taliban without lying about the rights and responsibilities of workers! 🤦
First thing I thought of when I saw this post.
Well, at the end of the day, I bet someone writes it down...gotta at least check that that someone gets things mentioned right? 😉
First hand accounts are important
Bureaucracy be like
Y'know, if you don't bother writing the history after bothering to win the war and then letting the enemy go home and be governors, judges, congressmen and senators and presidents anyhow, you'll end up how the United States did after its civil war.
