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]

*points* What Ell said. I had a Pell grant and two Stafford loans, among other things.

THIS IS NOT ALL TO SAY that most Financial Aid departments ARE INDEED useless tools. *cough* But talk to them anyway. You're smart, Jenn, and you are more than capable of working the system.