I've been working my fanny off - literally I've lost about 10 lbs but needed to - haven't been keeping up with stuff here as much. I'm just tickled for you! Got to head out to work - forget some meter readings yesterday- sigh - clear across the city again, I won't forget that again!
Thanks I thought you knew, I've been dropping the bomb all over
Refresh my memory, which school is this?
Thank you! I'm very excited. I still have to wait to hear about financial aid, but it's great to know I got in either way
Huzzah!!!! Congratulations!!!! That is so exciting!
The thing about studying abroad is that I'd probably end up staying there I did a study abroad in undergrad. I'll be studying Spanish Lit in Grad School, so yes, that's just another subject that doesn't pay, but I feel like my BA should be marketable ... in another location. Not here. My final plan for a PhD would be to become a professor at a research institution. Torture students by day, do research by afternoon.
Places like WashDC and NYC come to mind as having more opportunity to use your language skills but even there you are likely to end up an interpreter, making a fair but limited income. You have to weigh the time and cost of additional education against increased opportunity. What about studying abroad? That might really increase your both your skills and future opportunites.
Education is a curious thing. More doesn't always get you further but less can hamper you. Guess the big question is what do you plan to do with your education? One of the big things contributing to women making 73 cents to a man's dollar is that women get as much or more education, pay as much for it but study for fields that simply dont't pay. The other issues are undervaluing ourselves and poor negotiating skills. I'm going to guess there aren't many opportunitites to use your skills where you live?
I wonder if I really should, after all my BA didn't do me any good (unless you call my relatively small student loan debt good) so I wonder if a Masters or PhD would do me any good either. Negative thoughts ahoy :P But if I get the TA position I want, I won't be making much less money than I do now, similar benefits, and I'll have the added help of actually USING that BA. So ... there's some positive to it too
That's exciting. I've often wished I could further my formal education but there is just too much on my plate. Perhaps someday, when I'm older and less frantic. Waiting for apple betty to cool enough to eat. My daughter is home from the dorms for the weekend and we all wanted a treat.
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