Posted by floatingbridge on July 29, 2011, at 13:07:32
In reply to Thanks, everyone, posted by Christ_empowered on July 29, 2011, at 11:57:07
> I shouldn't complain so much.
Why not? Besides, I read you discussing real world problems. The idea of wanting a job and not getting one is a reasonable concern.
>At least I have parents who are able and willing to support me until I can support myself.Life is less than ideal for many of us, but you have counted your blessings before. It's okay CE. I'm glad you have family.
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> As for school..I just don't know. My parents want me to focus on a job and then do school; I'm thinking what if, with my very little work experience and huge gaps in work history, I can't get a job. What then? Another year just hanging out, letting my brain go to rot? On the downside, the only program I'm looking at in Health Information Technology (its
through a state school, so its non-profit and relatively affordable) requires proctored exams, so I'd have to find a proctor for every single exam.>That kinda sucks.
It also sounds stressful. My best advice to just about everything is reduce stressors whenever possible because there is no avoiding all of them, and mental illness, even the non-dx'd kind is often triggered by stress. By non-dx'd I refer to all the people who feel the need to tail gate me at 60 miles per hour or flip other people off on the freeway. That is a stress induced altered state IMO.
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> If I wait a year, a more local tech school (the tech schools here are inexpensive and quite good) offers a HIT program largely online, but they have a testing center I can go to, so I wouldn't have to find a proctor and work out scheduling and payment for testing fees.
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> I thought about asking my parents for some fund$ for the in-state program right now, even though tuition would be higher (and you can't borrow for tech school). I don't think that would work...they're not convinced that this is the right time for school, and they're buying another house for me to live in,
so that would be asking a bit too much, I think.
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> Ugh. I just want to get some forward momentum going, but its so difficult.You'll get there. Yeah, that slow chugging back into forward momentum I find personally excruciating. What field of science governs that? Mechanical physics? Inertia, bodies at rest? You'll be back on your game and maybe all the wiser? Can you find some volunteer/ work related to the health field so your mind and body do not fall fallow?
Very best to you CE.
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