Im getting out of the steel industry after 7 years and moving on to Heavy Equipment....totallly riskin it all for the possibility at a better way of life....Not to mention ive acquired a large student loan and the what not but nothing ventured nothing gained huh....ill be moving from Illinois to So Cal too....outta control....LOL...

 

Good choice. Best of luck to you.

 

college would be great if it wasn't for school... i miss the old days...

good luck!!

 

no matter what investments you make in your life, a college education is the best investment you can give anyone

 

Hmm...I agree college is nice...in that you learn some things you never knew about...and meeting new people.

I believe in fate/luck/karma though. Life isn't what you make of it...unless you are born of European/Caucasian descent...in a caucasian world.

I've been looking for a GOOD jobsince 2000 the day I got my AAS degree...PC Support Specialist/LAN.
I'm still looking for a GOOD job after I got my BS degree in MIS, 2005.
I'm 7 class away from my MBA in Business Management/MIS and I'm still looking for a GOOD job.

My skills starts from the days when you had to manually load drivers into .ini's and .sys's and write your own .bat macros. GUI device manager's are a no brainer. Networking is a pain depending on OS but MMC easily manages everything.

Notice I say GOODand not GREAT. At this rate I'd settle for any crappy GOOD job. I can only pray for GREAT job like praying for the state lottery. (Crappy=$35<..., GOOD=$40-$60K, GREAT=$70K+)

I hate to say this but for some people, they call it education and hard work but they don't realize that they are caucasian to begin with.

For others its pretty much luck/fate.

I worked 10 years as a CNC machinist till outsourcing killed the pc circuit board operations in the USA.

After 2 years of looking for work and wasting my 150K 401K and 1 1/2 years of unemployment benefits, some odd ball Temp agency called me out of thin air and offered me a crappy data entry pc operator job, which I took since it pays the bills.

I've watch many with no skills, bad attendance, bad habits, no degree, etc, etc, get promoted left and right.

It's all luck, it's all fate. It's WHO you know, WHO you suck up to and not what you know. I suck at both of those WHO's.

7 classes till my MBA. Then off to a crap Law degree or Medic Degree afterwards if I still can't land a GOOD job.
$70K in student loans and I sure am not about to pay it if no ones going to hire me. I'll just keep going to school.

I'll stick to luck and what Thex mention, there is no god.

Anyways ConGrats on your drive in going back for an education. It is fun.

 

I went back after 9 years... awesome decision. Congrads bro-han.