09-22-2014, 09:21 PM
Yes I did the work and higher education thing together.
Time is relative, time is also a great leveler of experience, and many other things.
Right now 2017 is far, far away - to you.... To me 2017 is just a couple three months down the road. The older we get the faster time moves. Enjoy the slow time stream while it lasts.
Regrets - get used to it. The upside to this is most people regret the stuff they didn't do... which is perhaps easier to swallow than regretting things we did do. My advice for regret is not to much to ignore it, but to embrace it, learn from it and apply whatever lesson you took away from it in future experiences.
There is no magic pill or drug that allows one to draw credit from tomorrow. I have tried many, coffee, pep-pills... methamphetamine (crystal meth).... While I got short term 'energy' the long term was a bit of a bitch when it came to paying back that debt.
All of us only get 24 hours to the day. We need to do a lot of things in those 24 hours to remain sane, healthy and able. Such as sleep, such as eat, such as find time to relax, such as carve out a slice of the money pie.
Forget short cuts and reaching those goals earlier than humanly possible. You can't do that. Its not a problem of will, its a simple problem of physics - time, space, energy, etc.
One thing which might make this all easier is to take your main goal and divide it up the time from here to there with mini-goals to meet. Surely there are steps in this process you need to accomplish before you attain the papers. Place your focus on those, celebrate when you hit those small goals and can scratch them off your 'to do' list as done.
Your 'goal' of 2017 is not realistic... So what is the most time it would take? Are we looking at 2025? 2020? 2019???
I would think that 2019 is a reasonable goal, still allows you time to think... I assume doubling the two years from 2015 to 2017, which means 2019...
That is only 5 years in future, and you will be 27.
The down side is that you are taking more time, and are not where most folk of that age is.... The upside is that you have gotten the party out of your system, have actually lived life, got some serious experiences as an adult in the modern adult world, thus are not as naive as those who get their degree at age 24 to discover that what they wanted to be at age 17 isn't exactly what they want to be for the rest of their life.
This last I know rather well.... I got a D.min and other papers which I never actually used.... Apparently construction workers don't need to be ministers. I discovered later in life that I actually like if not love building stuff...
You have an edge here. I suspect that there are lot of people out there who set their sights on a certain goal when they were just too young, inexperienced to know what it was where they really liked to be - so now are banging away at a job they hate because their education limited them to this one thing and they feel trapped by life to remain there - forever - pushing that rock up the hill for all of time... maybe whilst some birds are eating out their liver just for extra fun.
The other aspect here is it appears you found a complimentary job that matches your career and educational goals.
Can you apply this work experience as part of your credits/units whatever its called now days to help flush out your education and reach that goal sooner? Perhaps a talk with your guidance counselor at your school will reveal stuff for you that you can apply to your career and educational goals?
Conversely, does your current educational goals and plans and standing benefit your job? IDK perhaps you need to talk to human resources or whatever the corporation's employment development department is called.
I know a lot of companies actually pay for their employees to go to school to learn stuff that applies to the job. Some companies even pay the employee to be a student. I have no idea how this works out for you because that field has never been on my radar. I do know trade skills (plumbing, A/C, electrical, carpentry, even dry-wall plastering) often come with intern-ships, apprenticeships and other mixes where work and education go hand in hand and the individual both works and learns at the same time.
There may be more options for you than you know (or I know). I would start at your school with the guidance counselor, and with the employee development/human resources department at your job.
Time is relative, time is also a great leveler of experience, and many other things.
Right now 2017 is far, far away - to you.... To me 2017 is just a couple three months down the road. The older we get the faster time moves. Enjoy the slow time stream while it lasts.
Regrets - get used to it. The upside to this is most people regret the stuff they didn't do... which is perhaps easier to swallow than regretting things we did do. My advice for regret is not to much to ignore it, but to embrace it, learn from it and apply whatever lesson you took away from it in future experiences.
There is no magic pill or drug that allows one to draw credit from tomorrow. I have tried many, coffee, pep-pills... methamphetamine (crystal meth).... While I got short term 'energy' the long term was a bit of a bitch when it came to paying back that debt.
All of us only get 24 hours to the day. We need to do a lot of things in those 24 hours to remain sane, healthy and able. Such as sleep, such as eat, such as find time to relax, such as carve out a slice of the money pie.
Forget short cuts and reaching those goals earlier than humanly possible. You can't do that. Its not a problem of will, its a simple problem of physics - time, space, energy, etc.
One thing which might make this all easier is to take your main goal and divide it up the time from here to there with mini-goals to meet. Surely there are steps in this process you need to accomplish before you attain the papers. Place your focus on those, celebrate when you hit those small goals and can scratch them off your 'to do' list as done.
Your 'goal' of 2017 is not realistic... So what is the most time it would take? Are we looking at 2025? 2020? 2019???
I would think that 2019 is a reasonable goal, still allows you time to think... I assume doubling the two years from 2015 to 2017, which means 2019...
That is only 5 years in future, and you will be 27.
The down side is that you are taking more time, and are not where most folk of that age is.... The upside is that you have gotten the party out of your system, have actually lived life, got some serious experiences as an adult in the modern adult world, thus are not as naive as those who get their degree at age 24 to discover that what they wanted to be at age 17 isn't exactly what they want to be for the rest of their life.
This last I know rather well.... I got a D.min and other papers which I never actually used.... Apparently construction workers don't need to be ministers. I discovered later in life that I actually like if not love building stuff...
You have an edge here. I suspect that there are lot of people out there who set their sights on a certain goal when they were just too young, inexperienced to know what it was where they really liked to be - so now are banging away at a job they hate because their education limited them to this one thing and they feel trapped by life to remain there - forever - pushing that rock up the hill for all of time... maybe whilst some birds are eating out their liver just for extra fun.
The other aspect here is it appears you found a complimentary job that matches your career and educational goals.
Can you apply this work experience as part of your credits/units whatever its called now days to help flush out your education and reach that goal sooner? Perhaps a talk with your guidance counselor at your school will reveal stuff for you that you can apply to your career and educational goals?
Conversely, does your current educational goals and plans and standing benefit your job? IDK perhaps you need to talk to human resources or whatever the corporation's employment development department is called.
I know a lot of companies actually pay for their employees to go to school to learn stuff that applies to the job. Some companies even pay the employee to be a student. I have no idea how this works out for you because that field has never been on my radar. I do know trade skills (plumbing, A/C, electrical, carpentry, even dry-wall plastering) often come with intern-ships, apprenticeships and other mixes where work and education go hand in hand and the individual both works and learns at the same time.
There may be more options for you than you know (or I know). I would start at your school with the guidance counselor, and with the employee development/human resources department at your job.
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