Further clarification on the college thing:

[apocalypsos]

-- There's a weekend course program around here which is the only one I wouldn't mind taking. My mother took it. The problem? I work a four-day-on, four-day-off schedule. The weekend that I have off right now, I'll be working in four weeks.

-- Get another job? I took the one I have as a holdover so I'd be able to pay the bills until I got a better job. Two years later, I still can't find one.

-- Financial assistance? No one will be giving me money. Trust me. I wouldn't give me money. I wouldn't give me a loan, a grant, a scholarship ... hell, I wouldn't throw a quarter into a coffee cup I was holding on a street corner. My situation is THAT bad.

So even if I found a college course I could take, I couldn't pay for it. No, no matter how cheap it might be.

Hence the "exercise in futility" statement. I might as well be window-shopping for ponies.

(There's a reason my list only says, "See about college classes," but says, "Get published." Because I have a better chance of getting published at this point. Hey, anybody want to buy a kidney? Or some eggs? God knows I'm not getting any use out of them.)

Comments

[mona1347.livejournal.com]

No, I mean seriously, do the FAFSA thing anyway. I know it feels futile to you, but I swear to god, federal student aid is not at all like going to a bank and trying to get a car loan or something. My mother was in debt up to her eyes when she died and she was my 'primary custodian' or whatever on the FAFSA and my BFF had serious credit issues - 10s of thousands of dollars of unpaid hospital bills, collections against her for that and other things, including breaking a lease - and when she went back to college as a "non-traditional", she got mad aid. You may need a co-signer for some loans but it seems like your parents are pretty supportive and whatnot.

I know we don't even really know each other that well and I'm being all rambly and forceful about this but it's my THING - fenagling education without money, both personally and ideologically - and I just don't want you to give up before you even start, you know?