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mccoy178:
Gotcha.  I decided to keep a small portion of my pool business and I plan to work in the summers with it.  If you decide to go the teaching route, maybe you can figure out some form of your work that you could use during those months off to produce more income.

shmokes:
Heh . . . my  bad.  Since I never seriously considered going there I didn't look at it closely.  It was $11,000 per semester rather than per year (it's apparently gone up to $13,000 per semester now).

Well . . . if you wanna live in Utah you could always go to BYU.  It's actually ranked about 35th in the nation (that's pretty high).  They don't do resident/non-resident tuition, they do mormon/non-mormon.  The non-mormon tuition is under $20k per year, but the tuition for members of the church is $9,000 per year  :o   It's seriously the deal of the century, if you don't mind weird rules like no shorts above the knees, and no drinking coffee on campus.  And being surrounded by ultra-conservative Mormons all the time.

At any rate, there are lots of law schools that cost less than $20k per year to attend. http://www.ilrg.com/rankings/law/tuition.php/1/asc/Tuition08

Wade:
Well, I've been there.  A lot of it comes from being young I think.  Most older people I know are more satisfied than us fiesty young pups, and honestly every new job I have gets more and more pleasant, and I doubt it's JUST the job.

About what ChadTower says, well, that's more of a problem - imagine hating your job like you do but knowing you couldn't afford to switch.  You are early career so you really have FAR more options than most people.

BSME is a killer degree.  There's LOTS of great jobs even around here for that degree.  Get a job at the gas company, it's easy work, get paid well, some of our departments would allow flex time so you could work 4 10's and take every Friday off.

Everywhere I've ever worked paid tuition and they didn't have a contract to keep people there.  Who in their right mind would sign up for that... I know I sure wouldn't, nothing good could come out of a contract keeping you at a job.

My opinion... Change is good.  Go find a new job, even if it stinks it'll take you a couple of years to get tired of it.

Wade

Wade:
Oh, I'm in an MBA program too with an infant, and I made the decision that she'd miss me a lot less before she's 3 than when she's older and actually wants to do things, play sports, whatever.  Plus, work pays for most of it and it's local through an accredited university, so I felt the opportunity might not always be available.  I DO really wish I didn't have to put the time into class, but it was a choice of the lesser of the evils.  And I'm pretty confident this will be my last degree until I'm close to retirement (have 2 degrees already).

Wade

shardian:

--- Quote from: Wade on February 12, 2008, 06:14:50 pm ---BSME is a killer degree.  There's LOTS of great jobs even around here for that degree.  Get a job at the gas company, it's easy work, get paid well, some of our departments would allow flex time so you could work 4 10's and take every Friday off.

My opinion... Change is good.  Go find a new job, even if it stinks it'll take you a couple of years to get tired of it.

Wade

--- End quote ---

I'm fine with change really, it is the time in between that would be spent without insurance/income that bugs me. ;D

I looked at the job postings for the gas company and the power company - nothing current that fits my bill. I have my EIT certification, so that would hopefully put me a leg above when an entry engineering job opens up. You have any engineering contacts at the gas co.? I would love to work at the gas co. - the pay would definitely be an upgrade.

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