What do you do?
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Xequecal
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Honestly, how do people manage to go go to school full time once they're an adult and have mortgages and bill payments? With my GPA and the people I know I could pretty easily go to Pharmacy College and double my salary after 3-4 years of school, but that kind of school is hard enough that you realistically can't work much while you're in school and I have no idea how I'd pay tuition plus pay my mortgage, car, insurance, etc for that long.
Heylel
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Noodleface
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Yep I went back to school at 24, while not carrying a mortgage or anything me and my then girlfriend were living on our own. It wasn't easy, she worked full time at a real job while I worked full time at a really shitty job. Took me 6 years to graduate, and I did engineering so it might not compare to pharmacy school, but it was basically a struggle the entire duration. Left in the morning at 6 or 7 and returned at 10pm at night, still needing to do homework and be a boyfriend.
Cad
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I sold a business first and I had a cheap paid off house and paid off cars and my wife worked.
B can you just post your life history so I can digest it?
I remember you saying you didn't have a degree, that exxon paid for your degree, and now this.
I remember you saying you didn't have a degree, that exxon paid for your degree, and now this.
Noodleface
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I wonder if forestry is one of those degrees.. you know, when you gotta take a pleb liberal arts course as a gen ed and you sit next to that one dude who tells you he's majoring in pyschology. Is it one of those?
Noodleface
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Mist
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I know 2 people with Forestry degrees that make 150k+ salaries in charge of large parks and recs departments.
Borzak
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Exxon paid for part of my graduate degree. I paid for most of my undergrad and had a partial (small) scholarschip from the Sons of the Republic of Texas. BS in forest management with a minor in biology and a MS in wildlife management.
I have a GED and no high school diploma. My degree has no bearing on what I do for a living like a lot of people. If I remember right I paid about $1500-$1800 per semester for school and most of the books in my major were provided on loan from the university. Paid $250/month rent for a house on 15 acres. I actually came out ahead money wise when I finished. Not for most people tho.
My girlfriend has a forest recreation degree and makes significantly more than I do. She went into library work and now works for a group that prepares traveling exhibits from the University of TX library system.
Noodleface
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Well the company finally offered me the job. Won't have any details until Monday. At least I can stop emailing these people every few days asking for an update.
Can't list the company yet, some people on the board live near it.
Can't list the company yet, some people on the board live near it.
Noodleface
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The Dauntless One
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I did school 2 years full time (5 days a week 7-8 hours a day, 1.5+ hour commute, 1 week break in between terms) and worked around 20 hours a week. It was brutal. I would need full student loan if I had mortgage and bills. One of my classmate worked full time and had to support his family. If the program was any longer I think I would have gone insane.