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0 pointsdijit5y ago0 comments

I keep thinking that I wish I had a university education. It wasn't on the cards for me at the time.

But now I live in relative comfort, and I would have to stop working and generating an income. I have savings that could tide me over but when the choice is a home for a future family or a university degree with questionable worth it's a tough ask.

I can't imagine having dependents and going back to work.

Of course everyone is going to chime in and say that you don't need to do university full time, but, you do. Notwithstanding the mental exhaustion that comes with our jobs but also I believe it to be unlikely that you'd be able to get into the right mindset to be creative, social and learning deeply.

I sincerely believe that university is a thing that you can only do at a certain point in your life, and I'm passed that point.

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clarry5y ago

Yeah I mostly share those feelings. Having a degree most certainly wouldn't hurt, but as you say, it's not worth quitting over. And I certainly don't have the energy to get a degree while employed full time (I know some people who have done it!).

I'd still like to study though. At a sustainable part-time pace. Say, 1-4 courses per year, with focus on things I actually want to learn, and not so much on things that would award me a paper.

(It'd help a lot if I could work, say, 4 days a week)

tonyedgecombe5y ago

I sincerely believe that university is a thing that you can only do at a certain point in your life, and I'm passed that point.

As someone who didn't graduate until they were 49 I strongly disagree. The only thing I would change now is I would have put work aside and studied full time instead of part time.

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