Update: Slow Times Ahead
So this isn't gonna be about my city or cool things in it (technically I'll talk about Wake Tech but it's not really the focus here), but instead, it's gonna be more personal. I won't reveal anything concrete enough to guess the author here but hopefully, you'll read this anyway.
Posts are gonna slow down a bit (Funny I know, with my multi-month gap in content) because I am going back to college.
Community college specifically, I'll be attending Wake Tech (hopefully) starting this Summer semester. I've applied for FAFSA, some scholarships, and I'm waiting for my good ol' High School to send me a copy of my transcripts from 8+ years ago.
"RL," I hear you ask inquisitively, "You're such a well-spoken alphagigaomega Chad. You never completed uni? Are you just a poseur?"
To that, I have to say thank you and yes. I never completed University because of some poor life choices I'd made surrounding my life. Nothing like drugs or alcohol, but I flunked out of my junior year university and let some friends convince me to join them in an endeavor that both helped and hurt me in the long run.
Now, after a series of half-formed ideas and this blog being the longest one to stick around I got the idea to go back and try again. I'm still working on some of them, and I'll definitely continue writing this blog for fun if nothing else because it's oddly cathartic, but I've reached a point in my life where I definitely need something larger to set me apart from other candidates in the career pool and every inch I get is something I'll need to help.
So why wake tech? Why transfer when I'd completed 3/4ths of a degree already? Why the sudden urge to do this now?
Most of these are related to money. My previous school was too expensive, if I get all the financial aid I applied for my courses will be essentially free, and if I get even an Associates my earning potential becomes much higher than it currently is.
Additionally, this gives me a chance to kinda restart. After speaking with some friends who went to the same degree, their diploma didn't really take them as far as they would've liked. Either working fields totally divorced from their dream job or doing nothing to move them up the corporate ladder.
Wake Tech Community College is a venerated institution that has graduates working in numerous fields, and I did enough generic credits that could transfer to my new degree that getting an Associates hopefully won't take too long. My goal is to finally achieve something, not spend another few dozen years of my life doing nothing and going nowhere.
Lately I've been feeling kind of like a loser, looking back at my past mistakes. I think everyone does that every once in a while but I've been looking to course-correct for a while now and it took a while to get to this point but at least I'm finally taking the first few baby steps.
I don't know what'll happen next, but hopefully, I'll get my associates and pivot into something helpful. Education looks fun but that'd also require some additional certs and time input to become viable.
TL;DR: I'm gonna probably post slower than I already have been because I'm gonna dive headfirst into trying to improve myself and I don't know what's gonna happen but wish me some goddamn luck cause I could really goddamn use some.