Major Decision

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Major Decision! Current mood: optimistic Category: Life I've finally made the tough decision to quit my job (don't get excited...not yet!) and go to school full time in September. This is scary to me for many reasons. It's going to be interesting trying to hold it together financially on just Scott's salary...but not only that...I've invested 5 years of my life in this company...albe them very boring and frustrating years! I'm also not sure if we're going to be able to keep the kids in daycare...which could prove a logistical nightmare. Oh - and did I mention I'm going to be 13 years older than the majority of my classmates? I love my nieces - but I cannot imagine having to deal with teenagers for several hours a day! But despite all of that - the time is now. The GI Bill (which was the primary reason I joined the Army 10 years ago) is going to expire for me at the end of next year. If I started school tomorrow I'd still lose a ton of money for waiting too long...but I'm not willing to lose all of it. I also feel like I'm at a cross roads where I have to make a decision to either a. fully support my husband and children and let my career take the backseat or b. give something that I KNOW I would be good at and I know I would find rewarding - a shot. So I'm starting really late - and I honestly don't know where we're going to be living in 6 months - but I applied to my first school 5 minutes ago and I'm going to keep on applying until I cover every area that we could potentially be in. (Applications are going to get expensive -but whatever!) So hold me to it - and some day you may here 'And now reporting for NBC - our political correspondent, Heidi Lee!' (Or CNN or CBS - but NBC sounds better for obvious reasons)!