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SilverFireshot_75
By: SilverFireshot
Mood: In Your Base Killing Your Mans (clever)
Date: 10/30/2007 13:42:42
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So I'm debating with myself whether to go back to school or not.  I took a semester at Boise State but really didn't find anything that interested me, that would actually be useful to get a diploma in.


We have an technical college right across the street from our house that offers game design and visual communications.  The two fields I'm interested in.  It's a little overwhelming right now, even jsut the thought of it.  I like my job now because it pays the bills but I always told myself that I would never work a job just for the money for very long.


It's a little harder now, we have a house and two cars to pay for but I'm just thinking that if I don't do it now, I never will.  Have any of you gone back to school later in life (not right out of high school)?  How did you handle/balance your life with school?  It is a big decision moreso now than it was when I got out of high school.







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From: Reconvirus
11/29/2007 16:49:53

Will if you job get bills pay..and you are think to be come a game designer (my dream) y cant you still work at your job and still go back to school..unless that a problem...then just stick with your job right now and and REALLY THINK ON THIS..


REALLY THINK!!!


 



10/31/2007 05:50:56
It is defintely much harder to go back to school as you get older.  The older you get, the more responsiblity you'll have.  I'm sure you know that already.  The question you have to ask yourself is, "Will I be able to do what I want to do for the rest of my life with or without an accredited degree?  Will I be able to support my family?"  Frozin is also right in some sense.  If you have the talent to do what you want to do, you don't need a degree.  You just have to know the right people to get you into the door.  In my 33 years of experience, there was never the right time to go back to school.  Partly because I didn't know what I want to do.  But now I regret not going back, even just to get a degree in whatever.  So now I'm just a wondering soul on the thing we call earth.  Waiting for the devil to come and get me.   It's a good thing I met my wife.  I'm also thinking about going back to school after she finish hers.  I guess my advice for you Silver is make a list, PROs and CONs.  Whichever side wins, that's your decision.  And hopeful you'll have someone there to support you in your next chapter.  I hope this helped.


10/30/2007 17:17:29
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