Degree: BA in Psychology from Edinboro University (http://www.edinboro.edu) - with a concentration in Mental Health and a minor in English.
Current Occupation: Mall Worker/Build-A-Bear Workshop/Bear Builder/Sales Associate
Used Skills from College: *maybe* five whole percent. I dabble in excell just to keep current and use psychology tips in dealing with crazy parents.
Career Plans: Yeah - seriously no clue. Ideally I'd like to get into and attend Grad School. I'm not sure what for i.e. general psychology counseling, mental health, drug. or even forensics. I've also thought about attending a local certification program at a community college in addictions certification. But GRE's, GPA and money are my major obstacles.
Degree Woes: Woes... well aside from on job interviews that i've been on where I've flat out been told that I picked one of the 3 worst degrees (theatre, sociology, psychology) and that because soc and psych fight over who's ground is whose. and that in order to get a job within psyc i need my masters (see above)
Degree Pluses: Overall, during my college education I met some really awesome and informative professors, I learned alot.
Degree: AA in Sociology from Fullerton College BA in Sociology with Minors in Anthropology and African American Studies from UCLA
Current Occupation: NONE!!!! I had a job while in school that really prepared me well for the types of positions I am looking for, however, since school district hiring process takes FOREVER and a day I have been jobless for two months now! Can you believe it? Education+Experience= a lot of interviews and waiting...waiting...waiting... A friend of mine applied to work for LAUSD and they called her back with a job offer ONE YEAR LATER!!!! She was heading off to New York for her Master's when they called! NUTS!
Used Skills from College: 10% only because I am taking an online course from a local community college which is pretty much like I'm back in college for a very small portion of my week but I regressed to sophomore year. Otherwise I just do laundry, clean house, waste time on myspace and live journal, and go out with friends.
Career Plans: I'm trying to get into grad school to get a master's in counseling. I'd like to become a community college counselor. Besides that I also would like to dance professionally, I hope to be able to do both. I hate the GRE (I think its against my religion) and will only take it again if I don't get accepted to any programs this year.
Degree Woes: Ok so at my old job I was making 10 bucks an hour, well I graduate apply around and get one job offer! I was so excited and then the lady calls and says "with JUST A BA we can only pay you 10 bucks an hour" I was like what the? JUST a BA? and I have a friend that works for the same company and she is getting paid 45,000 a year and she also has "JUST A BA" it really ticked me off that she said that. So I wouldn't take the position because they were asking too much of me for what they were paying.
Degree Pluses: Well I really enjoyed my entire college experience, I wouldn't be who I am today if it weren't for me going to Community College, transferring to UCLA, and then studying abroad in Spain. All of my classes were interesting and I luckily had really good professors.
College changed my entire perspective on my life and this world and I am really glad I'm not who I was in high school. I look at some of my friends that didn't go to school and I dunno even though I'm jobless and they aren't I think they are always gonna feel like they missed out on something by not going to school. However I am really frustrated at this point because I'm not sure what to do next! I feel like every step I take and decision I make is leading me down a different path! I'm not completely sure where I wanna go so I feel like I'm going in circles.
When we are all 50 yrs old I wonder will any of this stuff that stresses us out now matter to us?
They're raising tuition again. I get absolutely NO FINANCIAL AID whatsoever because my income is apparently too high when approximately half of my income goes to rent and the other remainder goes towards paying off bills including paying off the principal for my current student loan. I just got denied for the rest of this year for aid. And my parents help with absolutely nothing but VISA has come a long way, baby.
I'm hoping that once I graduate, I can get out of my shithole job and move on to better things.
for a long time, i really felt like i wasted my time...i was on this psychotic mental track to graduate with a ba in psyche, get a masters and phd in law, and have a practice. and then i took the lsat. and my life ended. basically. so for over a year, i've been milling about, scratching my ass, completely PISSED OFF at how i was doing nothing with my life...hell, i can't even remember what year it is (i feel like i've been in a fucking time warp)...i can't do anything with a ba in psyche except MAYBE be a high school guidance counselor...and God knows they don't get enough appreciation or acknowledgement that they deserve...PLUS, i hated my dumbass high school guidance counselors. they never guided me anywhere.
i'm really the only person in my immediate circle of friends with a degree...i used to think it was like a special badge or something, but it's not. it's bullshit.
ANYWAY, with that said, i'm trying to get my life on track (i'm not exactly sure HOW pessimistic this community is), i'm planning on taking the gre (and i'm so incredibly test-phobic)...has anyone here taken it? any tips (besides having a shot of tequilla before i walk in the door)?
Hi. This community sums up my life to a perfect T.
After a very successful, 'glittering' high school career (only tarnished through depression and complete lack of caring - I'm one of those annoyingly bright people who don't have to put out much effort to pass anything - still graduated with a 4.0) fuelled by my parents' dreams for what my future career was to be (corporate lawyer), I wound up in a small no-name liberal Arts college because I turned down Boston U, and Georgetown didn't want me.
Wouldn't you know it, I decide to run away from it all, cut a deal with my dad to spite my mother (they were going through a vicious divorce), and enroll in University here in England?
I got involved in an abusive relationship, never went to class (in the four years I went to university, I probably attended 32 classes - the first day and the day of the finals), and somehow managed to get a BA(honours) American Studies and History, 2.1 (very high classed-degree).
Now... I am moving back to America, I can't get hired in the UK because I've got zero work experience, I did nothing in University leadership-wise, and what is an American Studies and History degree worth to an American? Nothing. What will it be worth in America? Nothing.
I wasted the past 6 years of my life bouncing from America to England, trying to run away and only succeded in getting a piece of crap degree to put behind my name.
I am quickly beginning to realise that I need to learn that fameous phrase that started off so many illustrious careers....
May I take your order please, and would you like to super-size that?
Anyway, I hope that my degree (and life) is wasted enough to join this LJ. If not, sorry to trouble you.
lock me in / tied to work / splitting rock / cutting diamonds /100 days / with no pay / not anymore / cause i'm caught / i can't type / i can't temp / i'm way past college / no ways out / no back doors / not anymore
i do like pants. though i am not acquainted with the snarky kind. in kindergarten they used to call me mr green jeans. strangely enough, at the time, i wore green tough skins, watched captain kangaroo, and at some point, possibly birth, acquired an irish last name. my best poem ever begins with the line 'ants in my pants at the picnic.' perhaps some of that explains my short lived college band called animal pants. my flawed logic being, "if you like animals and you like pants, you'll love animal pants!" for the last two years i have been desperately seeking a discounted pair of khaki guess jeans that look like pants to replace a worn pair i bought on clearance. i am not having much luck. one day i think i would like to work for worldwide pants.
Degree: BA in English Literature with 42 hours of French classes plus an enlightening semester in Art School. One class short of a French Literature degree yet I know no French. Also took too many existential philosophy and art history classes.
Current Occupation: Customer Service Representative at one of those DIY stores which I find to be relatively low stress (unlike my coworkers). Before, I was a subcontractor installing Audio/Video equipment until the day I came to the realization that all contractors are bipolar and I hate working in rich fuckers houses.
Used Skills from College: Currently reading Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals during lunch breaks.
Career Plans: Continue to flounder my way through some paintings while drinking off the clock.
Degree Woes: Being ill. Being in debt. Having no career path.
Degree Pluses: Rummaging through sorority girls dormitory dumpster.
i thought i'd sneak in some minutes of study while cooking the thanksgiving meal. as you can probably guess, that was a stupid idea... never happened.
anyway, today marks T-minus eight days before the big test on the sixth. that means seven days available for good hard study. let's hope i can make use of that time.
anyone else studying for a standardized test at the moment?
apathetic
tired (but not crying)