Wildcat Diva
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The four year degrees we have are geared for chemical plant operators. Not sure that’s his bag.At our CC, they are trying to implement some 4 year degrees also.
The four year degrees we have are geared for chemical plant operators. Not sure that’s his bag.At our CC, they are trying to implement some 4 year degrees also.
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.Electives depend on the degree that is being pursued. Has he given any thought to business management?
I appreciate it.I just suggested that because that often appeals to the academically inclined.
But I’m scared he will get stuck working somewhere low and not move up.
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).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.
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?
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.
Maybe that will provide the drive he needs when he is ready.
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.
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.
Sounds like he has a sense of responsibility, and that's a big thing.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.
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.Sounds like he has a sense of responsibility, and that's a big thing.