my crazy life...
 

:confused: I just decided to write this post to voice my thoughts. I have decided today that I am dropping out of school. I have been attending a local college and I have not been happy. I have been feeling like my life has been going nowhere lately. Have you ever had the feeling like you needed a new start? I am going to be 30 this year and I realized my life is not going the way I thought it would. I chose this school because they told me they had a Criminal Justice degree but I only just found out the degree is nothing like what I would need to get a job in the Criminal Justice field of work. Well unless I was planning on a desk job.
I wanted to be a CSI lab tech worker in the GBI crime lab. Going to this school will never get me there. They don't even have classes related to CJ. I have decided to go back to work for my family. I have not been working for a long time and since my parents might be selling their house in 5 years (which means they would also be selling my house which they own and which is on the same property) I have decided to start saving up for my own house. I don't want to look back on my life and regret anything. Plus not going to school will allow me to travel some which I have not done in forever.
I know I am babbeling a lot here but I needed a place to talk this out and my voice is almost gone because I have been sick lately. I know things are going to get better but it seems hard lately. I think you if you ready this and I hope you don't think badly of me. I love this site and I just felt I could express my thoughts on here. :-)
~Tru

I would say go with your heart. Good luck, I wish you the best

I agree, go with your heart but make sure this isn't you just having a bad week. Schooling is really important now days. Its so hard to find a good paying job without it. I know its hard and at times things get tough, but please think this through. I went for a nursing degree about 10 years ago. I had a year finished in college, married and a child, and a job. It just got to be too much and I dropped out. To this day.... I regrete that decision. I wish I would have just stuck in out during the hard times. You can only live your life once so please really think about things. Now may be your only chance to go to school. Good Luck and we will all be here for you no matter what.:)

I just have to say that in these times, a college degree is so important. I completely understand that they don't have the major you are interested in at your college - but is there someplace else that you can go to get the degree that you want? You sound like you really know what you want to do - but the school you are attending doesn't have that degree. If you settle for just working, and not getting that degree and doing what your passion is - then you may really regret it in the future.

Maybe you could just take some time off and investigate other colleges that might have the degree that interests you. I just think that a college education is so important now. I thank God for mine right now since my husband became disabled and can't work - my degree allows me to have a good job and be the primary breadwinner. I'm so thankful for my education.

Think carefully about this and make the decison that is right for you - but I would always lean toward getting that degree.

I think that is what I want. To find a school that fills that empty part of me. I am not giving up on school all togather...I am saying this school is not what I thought it was. I still see myself someday getting that job...just not with this school and the lies they sold me to convince me to attend. They said they ha a CJ degree...the classes do not get a CJ degree. I contacted the GBI crime lab recently and they said what they requ ier and said classes they require that are not su pporte by Piemont College. Please understand I love this school...but it is not for me...I vwould hate myself If I stayed because I am not who I feel I am pretending to be every day I attend classes that are not CJ based. I feel the online classes were closer to being real classes...does this make since or does it soun like I am just freaking out here. I cwant to continue school...just with the freeling like I am doing something that will benifit me in the long run.
~Tru

Good Luck with whatever decision you make! I am 33 and just enrolled in the community college by my house. I have always knew I needed to go back. When I think about long term I work full time and have a family. I can only take at the most 2 courses a semester. It will take me like 8-10 years to get a bachlors. I get real discouraged when I think about it like that.

So I try to tell myself one class at a time. And I wish I would have done this 15 years ago when I graduated from high school. Good Luck to you!

Trust your instincts! If you feel like you are wasting your time and money at this school then move on along. You have a Plan B in place to go and work for your family and save up. Take some time and get your bearings together. School can be so overwhelming. I know that a college degree is so important these days and I'm not discouraging you from an education, but I know plenty of people that have led successful happy lives without one. You just need to know what you want and a plan of how to get there. Best of luck to you.

Yes, follow your instincts and don't look back. Good luck to you!

Tru-
Life can be a real drag sometimes!!! Before you drop out of this school, make sure you can get a refund on whatever classes you have begun. If you can't get a refund and the classes will be considered generaly education, perhaps think about sucking it up the rest of this semester and then start fresh at a place that allows you to really get your degree in the field you desire.

Sometimes I think the major milestones in life, like entering a new decade, cause us to evaluate things. The rest of your plan to save money toward your own house sounds good. You can never start saving too early.

Is working at some kind of CSI lab an option for you now, without a degree? Say, in an entry level position doing anything to get a foot in the door. Then you will have an idea of what this kind of job is like to further your decision process. Whatever you decide, be true to yourself.

I went to college as an adult, married with young children and having a fulltime job. I started and stopped, then went back again. All together, it took me around 7 years (I got my Associates first, then an accelerated program for my Bachelors) to finish. It was lots of hard work and I had no free time between class, assignments and family. The degree did allow me to get a new job a couple years later at more $, but that job didn't last and I really hated what I was doing anyway. Now that I am teaching Pilates and Yoga, my degree means nothing - BUT I learned a lot along the way and I don't regret having done it.

Good luck to you!

I understand! It took my daughter 7 years to get her degree and she went full time the first year. She was married and not planning to start a family, but oops! along came my granddaughter. She got discouraged along the way too - but she stuck it out and now she is a fifth grade teacher! :)

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It sounds like you really do know what you want and that you can't get it at this particular college - good luck to you - don't give up on that dream!!!