errare humanum est

So, anyone who has read my “About Me” page knows that I’m a college dropout. I’ve completed 9 credit hours in the past three years at community college. Part of the problem has been money shortages. I’m terrible with money, first off, and I’ve been carrying CC debt since I was 18 that I’ve never been able to pay off totally. I had it close once, then I went to Otakon, then I bought a car, etc. Anyway, community college isn’t exactly expensive, but $400 for one class+book is a lot when you have bills like I do. That’s excuse number one. Number two would be my job, which is a shitty, shitty job where I’m the “lowest” rank of employee, but one who has been there long enough that I can do basically anyone else’s job. And they make me do everyone else’s job. On a daily basis. While denying my quarterly requests to go full-time, which means I’ve been at the company’s pay cap for part-timers for several years now.

So, I’m taking the dive and quitting. What am I doing about my monthly bills? Hoping to find a more decent job in the next two months before I run out of money. Even at a pay cut. I actually qualify for enough gov’t grants now that they will almost totally cover my costs of taking 12 credit hours for each of the next two semesters. I’m either fucking myself over by leaving a place where I have excellent job security or, (this is what I’m hoping) I’ll find a job that doesn’t make me want to murder everyone around me, thus raising my level of enthusiasm for attending class and actually doing well in my gov’t-sponsored classes.