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    Electives depend on the degree that is being pursued. Has he given any thought to business management?
    I talked to him about it. He doesn’t like dealing with people so much. We keep beating the same dead horses around here. Maybe he just needs to work a little and see.

    But I’m scared he will get stuck working somewhere low and not move up. He’s just 18 now. Maybe he just needs a break after AA degree.

    He is in a metal band and they enjoy making music and made an EP last year. They worked with a producer.

    I dunno, maybe he just hasn’t reached the next level of what it means to be a grown up with a career yet, so he doesn’t know what he wants. He’s a pretty responsible kid, though.
     

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    Our CC, if they haven't already implemented it, is working on a 4 year degree in business and I can't remember what the other was.
     

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    I bet eldest kid ends up doing psychology, like me. I’m not pushing that, but it’s just how he is made. He’s like a mini me to a point. Bet that’s where he ends up eventually. Wouldn’t be bad. We need more males and more relatively conservatively minded in that field. Problem is that he’s not too PC, like me. Have to hide that sometimes. But the cost of that degree, my goodness. Maybe over a decade he can get the masters/ license. I had mine by age 27 and that worked out ok.

    I myself just did a career placement test just for laughs to see and my top selections were social work (YUCK!). psychology, sociology, literature, communication, Finance (?), legal studies, criminology. Even being almost fifty, if I had to pick a career today... what else would I pick? I have no idea and none of those areas actually sound good to me, even though I’m the one who answered the questions!

    For my kid, there is a career called “music therapy” that is a mix of music plus psychology and we are on the edge of the biggest Medical Center here, Hello?! So that might be good. But it doesn’t pay that much so we kinda let that interest fizzle out. It’s hard to find what you want to do and what you CAN do, and what pays what you want. I mean I don’t mind working harder to get really good at something so you are worth being paid for it someday...but it’s hard to do that if you have no interest. I think he’s like me in that aspect.
     

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    Maybe that will provide the drive he needs when he is ready.
    I hope so. I tell him not to be like my brother. NO DRIVE (despite a masters degree in criminal justice). I had an uncle like that too with no drive (but no degree, him).

    My brother takes the cake. It’s embarrassing. He complains about his job yet he has waited so long to grow up that his degree is pretty much worthless. I don’t even want to say this but he never tried to get a real job and he is still a Walmart cartpusher, which is his first job as a teenager. He’s now 44 next month. With a masters degree he never has used. Not happy and rants about his job on Facebook constantly. Guess he’s satisfied with that and I would half like to comment on his posts but I don’t dare. What’s the point? I can’t even explain it, and it’s a cautionary tale for sure.
     

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    I hope so. I tell him not to be like my brother. NO DRIVE (despite a masters degree in criminal justice). I had an uncle like that too with no drive (but no degree, him).

    My brother takes the cake. It’s embarrassing. He complains about his job yet he has waited so long to grow up that his degree is pretty much worthless. I don’t even want to say this but he never tried to get a real job and he is still a Walmart cartpusher, which is his first job as a teenager. He’s now 44 next month. With a masters degree he never has used. Not happy and rants about his job on Facebook constantly. Guess he’s satisfied with that and I would half like to comment on his posts but I don’t dare. What’s the point? I can’t even explain it, and it’s a cautionary tale for sure.

    On the other hand, every job has dignity. He is not sitting around living off the government dole. And there is certainly something to be said for anyone having a job.
     

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    ^^^I need to remember that because it’s so easy to get lost in the missed potential, and the obvious fact that it’s not like he’s happy.
     

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    That that I quoted WAS ONLY the classes. In state tuition. $1,085 per class. No books, no other expenses. That IS factored in living at home, going to UHCL. (that is ALSO factoring in a three semester $750 semester transfer student scholarship offered) Is there a university that’s cheaper than $1085 per class?

    Seems North Texas or UT Dallas was cheaper than that.

    For most of my kids, the books were more expensive than tuition.
     

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    He already pretty much has his two years worth of core classes/ electives already ready to transfer (three more classes to go on that( but anything else maybe could count as electives?

    That’s why we were looking at four year degrees, he’s almost already taken enough at the two year level to gain an AA in general liberal arts (core academics). Why stay at this level and keep moving sideways, we are thinking, unless there’s a trade or skill he just loves, but there isn’t.

    Not sure, I think the bachelor degrees require those additional electives to be taken at the big money level and not so much at CC.


    Almost all the 4 year schools let you transfer 60 hours. Some just make it carte blanche and take the AA degree for the first two years. Then the upper level courses are done at the 4 year school.

    Some schools require a class by class analysis to see what they accept and what they dont.

    BTW, Texas Tech has several satellite schools, and very fair tuition structure.
     

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    Almost all the 4 year schools let you transfer 60 hours. Some just make it carte blanche and take the AA degree for the first two years. Then the upper level courses are done at the 4 year school.

    Some schools require a class by class analysis to see what they accept and what they dont.

    BTW, Texas Tech has several satellite schools, and very fair tuition structure.

    There is a chunk of “core classes” that are guaranteed to transfer to any Texas school, no haggling. We went that route. It’s all the basics plus electives.
    http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/apps/tcc/

    Basically you can get a generic associates degree, (associates of liberal arts) which for us (as dual credit homeschoolers) was fantastic to show that he is capable of college level work, and that he is smart, and finishes what he starts. When he starts to say it’s not worth much, I remind him that age 18 (well, he will turn 19 in November and have one class to go, dreaded College Algebra) the hell it’s not.
     
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    It sounds like he needs a wake-up call. Like having to support himself, pay rent at home etc. That's the best way I know of to figure out that life isn't handed to you, you are going to have to earn it.
     

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    A while back, it was not the tuition that was expensive. It was all the ridiculous mandatory fees.
     

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    It sounds like he needs a wake-up call. Like having to support himself, pay rent at home etc. That's the best way I know of to figure out that life isn't handed to you, you are going to have to earn it.

    He already has anxiety (that’s almost interfering to the point we’ve considered treatment, but have not as of yet) about being a grown up. We plan on handing him more of his responsibilities as he continues to earn. He works at a hardware store and likes it there.

    He pays a lot of his gas, food, and has paid for college classes. He just saved and bought his own computer that he built (which he said felt really good to buy himself).

    Honestly, he’s barely here at home. to charge rent. Maybe 1-2 nights a week. He has lots of buddies he hangs with and spends the night and also a long term gf with an elderly single grandma parent who doesn’t mind if he’s over and is glad to have a “man” around the house. I think they pitch in together for groceries over there. Charging him rent here wouldn’t work. He would just not come home.

    I can push him a little, but he’s not the kind of kid who is going to respond well to a shock “rude awakening.” He’s doing pretty much what we want him to, he just doesn’t understandably know what he wants to do for a career. It makes no sense to go all hard core on him when he’s pretty much doing what we expect of him.
     
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    He already has anxiety (that’s almost interfering to the point we’ve considered treatment, but have not as of yet) about being a grown up. We plan on handing him more of his responsibilities as he continues to earn.

    He pays a lot of his gas, food, and has paid for college classes. He just saved and bought his own computer that he built (which he said felt really good to buy himself).

    Honestly, he’s barely here at home. to charge rent. Maybe 1-2 nights a week. He has lots of buddies he hangs with and spends the night and also a long term gf with an elderly single grandma parent who doesn’t mind if he’s over and is glad to have a “man” around the house. I think they pitch in together for groceries over there. Charging him rent here wouldn’t work. He would just not come home.

    I can push him a little, but he’s not the kind of kid who is going to respond well to a shock “rude awakening.” He’s doing pretty much what we want him to, he just doesn’t understandably know what he wants to do for a career. It makes no sense to go all hard core on him when he’s pretty much doing what we expect of him.
    Sounds like he has a sense of responsibility, and that's a big thing.
     

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    Sounds like he has a sense of responsibility, and that's a big thing.
    Yep. He’s a good kid. Finished his Eagle Scout. Does what we ask him to do, pretty much. He is kind of doing it all right now, job, school, girlfriend, friends, band. He doesn’t have much time for us, but that is ok. Things will probably settle into place with some vision next year.
     
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