Career Paths

It's been a few years since I've been to college...six or seven years I guess since I was last in college. I started going to college nights right after high school while I worked full-time. At that time, it was for office administration. Once I had a great career going, I took some drafting courses thinking I might change career paths into computer aided design (CAD) or program management where I worked as my job was already including duties outside of office administration and I was good at them. Then I had kids and well, you know how that can go sometimes. I did go back to school about 6-7 years ago for Paralegal. I love the law and had wanted to be an attorney since I had married. However, who has money for law school when you get married and get two automatic children (two stepkids) and court fights out the wazoo with their mother? Paralegal was the affordable step down for lawyer. The ex got lucky on that one.

Now I am studying again and it feels odd. It is harder to concentrate, probably because it is a home study course instead of an actual classroom setting. This course had classroom study but with our four kids, that just wasn't going to happen. In a classroom setting, you have the instructor to bounce your questions and ideas off of. I like the home study hours (they are what I want them to be) but you do lose out a bit with not having an instructor on hand daily or weekly to clarify and keep you on track. I am hoping to take my state test in a few weeks (after my studies are done). The test is very difficult. I guess most people don't pass the first and second times (or third). Tough stuff! I want to pass it the first time.