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After much soul searching I've come to the conclusion that I will not be able to go to school this fall. I just cannot take on any more debt. I'll apply again in a year and hope for a better financial aid offer. I'm telling myself I could use a year off and it's true.
On the job front everyone at the Potential New Job seems to be operating on the assumption that I will be hired. It's just a matter of time. They are pushing Busy Boss Man to please call me ASAP. I've been told that he had my resume in his hands yesterday and actually read the entire thing, thus discovering that we attended the same college and one of his kids was born at the hospital in NY that I used to work for. I'm hoping he sees those as positive things!
On the job front everyone at the Potential New Job seems to be operating on the assumption that I will be hired. It's just a matter of time. They are pushing Busy Boss Man to please call me ASAP. I've been told that he had my resume in his hands yesterday and actually read the entire thing, thus discovering that we attended the same college and one of his kids was born at the hospital in NY that I used to work for. I'm hoping he sees those as positive things!
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And give me Busy Boss Man's phone number and I'll put a fire on his busy @SS!!!
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I've been on vacation (in Yosemite) and thinkin' about you and your Owl situation.
I'm sorry to be writing this after you've made a decision -- but here...
You know that the debt from school will come due starting a year after you graduate (whenever that is) and will last for 10 years.
No matter your current financial stiuation, it will be significantly different 7-9 years from now (2-4 years of school and 5 years of repayment).
DON'T make a school decision based on your current level of debt. It's not relevant to the decision. And, every year you don't finish is a year you work at Blockbuster. Really! A girl like you with your technical skills could be doing amazing things in 7 years.
I'd be happy to talk with you further if you're not pissed off at me. My non-QAF e-mail is Smartwomn2@yahoo.com.
LeAnn
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Unfortunatly it's very relevant in my case. I have a huge medical debt that I will never pay off. I can't make it any larger if I am going to have any chance of even reducing it to the point that it's not crippling me. Where I live there are no high paying jobs no matter what degree you have or how talented you are. The best I can hope for is to double what I am making now (which is nearly what the job I interviewed for will pay), and that won't make much of a dent in my debt.
I had a nightmare the other night about not being able to pay my bills. That's just not a place I want to be. Maybe I'll get a better financial aid offer next year and then I'll revisit the decision.
PS: I'm not pissed off at you :-)
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Have you spoken, in person, to a financial person, especially about the medical part?
It's not that I don't understand, it's the delayed nature of the debt that makes me want you to see if you can get started...
I went to a VERY expensive undergraduate school (not when I went there, but now) and they have A LOT of money to give people, but you gotta ask and ask and ask...
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I'm not giving up. I'll come back to this.
But to be polite -- seeing how we've never actually met -- although I think we share a birthday -- I'll stop nagging for now.
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It's the first time since I've started reading
your journals that you don't post two days.
I hope everything is OK.