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Going Back to School While TTC? - LONG
I am pretty unhappy in my current career (if you could even call it that...) I've been working retail since graduating from college 4 years ago. I graduated with a degree in English with the hopes of working as an editor for a magazine. Unfortunately, this is right about when the editorial industry collapsed and magazines/newspapers everywhere were letting people go left and right. Writing had always been a passion of mine, but it just didn't work out.
I have marketing experience as well, but it seems that you need at least 3 years experience in the field to even be considered anywhere in this town and no one will even give me a shot.
I am getting frustrated and have been thinking about going back to school to get a Paralegal Studies certificate. It is a 2-year program and can result in a pretty solid career. However, I am concerned that now that we have started TTC that if we got pregnant while I was still in school that financials would be more than tight. The entire program costs about 10k. I think I would be great at this. Last year, 14 of the 17 students that were in the program at the program in out area found full-time employment.
I want a baby more than anything and due to some medical issues I really don't have time on my side to wait, but I feel with working retail (mostly nights and weekends) that I would struggle with finding a balance. I'm feeling pretty conflicted.
Any advice?
Re: Going Back to School While TTC? - LONG
Do you have any experience in the industry? Did you do any interships? What seems to be going on these days is a LOT of what you are going through. People are going back to school hoping that an advanced degree will magically grant them happiness. Inst
Is there another aspect of writing you could look into, or you might be able to get a job? Maybe start lower on the totem pole and work your way up? I've done this in a couple of jobs. I've also been passed up for a couple of jobs bec
In college, I had an internship that lasted 2 years as a Programming Intern (I was responsible for choosing the entertainment, be it music, plays, movies, etc) for a local theatre in my college town. I had to provide demographics and statistical and fi
Do more research. Set up informational interviews with people related to writing, paralegal work, and other related fields. The point of an informational interview is to find out what people actually do, what experience and education it takes to get th
If you are interested in working in marketing I suggest you start knocking on the doors of smaller and newer businesses. These companies may not have the payroll right now for someone with years of experience and are more willing to give new
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Going back to school in a totally unrelated field that you have no experience in because you can't find work in your current field is almost never a great idea. In 2 years you run the risk of being exactly where you are now, but with an extr