I would love to go back to school for the pure joy of learning. Youth is wasted on the young because I sure didn’t feel this way when I was 18!
Is one ever too old for College? I am 50.. been "just a Mom".. thinking of getting a Certificate in:
@threebeans, I totally agree!!!
I’m jumping in here as a 52YO working mom - have worked my entire life and have always felt like I was a complete failure as a mom, because I had to be away from my kids. (My husband stayed home and worked his business there, so we were lucky in that regard.)
Now that my kids are teenagers and I’m actively researching college for them (waiting for the day when they will care about it - lol) I am so JEALOUS of all the places and courses and programs I’m reading about. I want to do them all!!! I also don’t remember being this excited about learning when I was 18. If I have the opportunity, I’d love to go back to school, just to audit classes and learn for learning’s sake.
OP, follow your heart. Do it for you, not to meet some societal expectation. And I would strongly suggest making sure you will LOVE what you do when the degree is done. Maybe shadow someone in the field before you take the leap to college?
It might reinforce your goal, but it might also turn you away from it. Good luck!
First: 50 is the new 30 (bc I said so)
Now: don’t be discouraged about job listings wanting experience. You have a lot of life experience they may consider. Think about it. You already know a lot of the organizational skills required. You know how to delegate and how politics works!
Do this for yourself!
Ps: “just a mom” is like saying you were “just the queen”!
I bought the Book “Medical Billing & Coding for Dummies”… I feel that sort of work IS something I could handle and enjoy for what I have read so far… I enjoy medical / Health anything… but wouldn’t want to be taking the blood (Nurse field)… I’ve always enjoyed working with the public… in this respect it would be with the patients and their complaints… sorting things out… you have to be mindfully accurate at all times to be successful at this job… even though I say I am organized… I can’t prove this other than assessing my own role over the years in the home and on various jobs…
I guess the reason I have little faith in getting skills and always seeing them come to fruition is based on our family experience… for instance… Husband went to computer school for a year when we were young , starting out…, literally got nothing from it at all… wasted time… wasted money… there was not 1 job offer that offered benefits when he was seeking a better job, so he stayed where he was … this was 30 yrs ago… his sister & husband who also took the course had to move to another state in order to get a good paying job… That was not an option for us at that time.
1st son got a degree in Psychology (only Bachelors) .,.truth is I have gotten jobs that paid more than him where his required a degree … now he’s laid off, the RTF facility he worked is closing cottages, he is telling me how the Government wants to slowly shut all these down (these goes many of the jobs HE was qualified for)… he feels it was all a waste - very much regrets what he took… still paying loans over $18,000 back… here he’s just hoping he can get into a Paving company soon… that’s his goal right now…
But I’ve come to the realization… it’s worth a try… so long as we can afford our 2 son’s EFC… pretty sure I am going to TRY… I guess that is worth something…
Thank you all for your time…