Do you see yourself staying in your current job fo

[biomaj5]

I can't see myself being a lab tech forever. However, I don't know what the alternative would be. You?

[bugandbibs]

I'll always be a nurse if I am working, but I am leaning more and more to becoming a SAHM again. When we adopted J, I took a break in working and just kept up enough to keep my license current. As she spent more time at preschool, I worked more. Then went back full time when she was in school full time. One thing I love about my current job is that I only work school days, but now that we have G I feel like I am missing out.

I can bid to change my assignment in another year, and I think I will go to half time. We will probably ttc around that time so it will be a good way to test out living on less money. We are working on trying to pay down our SL debt, but even as I pay off loans it doesn't make much difference.

Bio- do you think you will go back to grad school to raise your GPA and do something else?

[biomaj5]

I'd need to take some undergrad classes to up my gpa. I've never gotten into grad school. The problem with my gpa is that I took so many undergraduate hours (over 200), that it'll take more than 1 or 2 classes to fix it. They have to be upper level science classes too.

I want to go back and prove them wrong. I know it's probably wrong, but I was raised with the expectations from my mom and grandpa that I would be a dr of some sort. I feel like a failure because I can't get into grad school. On the other hand, I don't want to try grad school with a young child while holding down a job. I'm guessing it'll be another 10 years or so before I attempt to go back, assuming we are able to have or adopt children. I'd want them to be in school and we'd need to be able to afford for me to go part-time or quit working. I also don't want to wrack up a lot of SL debt.

[bugandbibs]

Jun 20, 2012 13:35:10 GMT -5 biomaj5 said:

I'd need to take some undergrad classes to up my gpa. I've never gotten into grad school. The problem with my gpa is that I took so many undergraduate hours (over 200), that it'll take more than 1 or 2 classes to fix it. They have to be upper level science classes too.

I want to go back and prove them wrong. I know it's probably wrong, but I was raised with the expectations from my mom and grandpa that I would be a dr of some sort. I feel like a failure because I can't get into grad school. On the other hand, I don't want to try grad school with a young child while holding down a job. I'm guessing it'll be another 10 years or so before I attempt to go back, assuming we are able to have or adopt children. I'd want them to be in school and we'd need to be able to afford for me to go part-time or quit working. I also don't want to wrack up a lot of SL debt.

IMO, it's easier to get better grades if you concentrate on one class at a time. Maybe if you start now, you can do it faster than you think. I seem to remember that credits expire after ten years? I'm not sure how that factors in.

[Kristinmo]

Nope. I work in public accounting as a manager. I know I don't want to be a partner so I have to move on eventually.

[biomaj5]

Jun 20, 2012 15:04:56 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

Jun 20, 2012 13:35:10 GMT -5 biomaj5 said:

I'd need to take some undergrad classes to up my gpa. I've never gotten into grad school. The problem with my gpa is that I took so many undergraduate hours (over 200), that it'll take more than 1 or 2 classes to fix it. They have to be upper level science classes too.

I want to go back and prove them wrong. I know it's probably wrong, but I was raised with the expectations from my mom and grandpa that I would be a dr of some sort. I feel like a failure because I can't get into grad school. On the other hand, I don't want to try grad school with a young child while holding down a job. I'm guessing it'll be another 10 years or so before I attempt to go back, assuming we are able to have or adopt children. I'd want them to be in school and we'd need to be able to afford for me to go part-time or quit working. I also don't want to wrack up a lot of SL debt.

IMO, it's easier to get better grades if you concentrate on one class at a time. Maybe if you start now, you can do it faster than you think. I seem to remember that credits expire after ten years? I'm not sure how that factors in.

I don't know if they expire or not. I started college in the fall of 2002, but didn't do any upper level biology/chemistry courses until fall of 2005. I know my GRE score has expired.

[gogadgetgo]

The science prereqs for nursing school in CA have to be done within 7 years. there's no statue of limitations for the non-science ones.

I have no idea if the time limit applies to other fields.

[kelly1014]

Yes and no. I will remain in my current position (HS Principal) until the perfect opportunity to move up presents itself. I think I will be with the company (that essentially owns my school) for a very, very long time. My next job change will likely be a move to another state as a Head of School, but I have zero desire to do that anytime remotely soon. I'm very content where I'm at right now.

[bugandbibs]

Jun 23, 2012 0:53:14 GMT -5 kelly1014 said:

Yes and no. I will remain in my current position (HS Principal) until the perfect opportunity to move up presents itself. I think I will be with the company (that essentially owns my school) for a very, very long time. My next job change will likely be a move to another state as a Head of School, but I have zero desire to do that anytime remotely soon. I'm very content where I'm at right now.

When my prep school got a new Head of School, I giggled a little inside every time someone called her Head Mistress. Head Master sounds so impressive- Head Mistress sounds so, well, dirty.