Decisions

Well I might as well give an update before I just vanish off the planet for a year. I'm on my fourth school choice and hopefully the last. I'm going to the wichita area technical college so it will just focus skills on a trade skill. I'm going into welding and so far it looks like my gen ed requirements will be all completed by transfered courses so I will actually get an associates degree in welding and only be taking welding classes. The online school was not for me. Not was it too difficult to have a steady pace I also realized accounting is not my career choice. I was getting too greedy and selfish and wanted to get with a big company and work my way up, but I know that only means my devotion for work increases that much more and my corruption does too. Sorry I think many big wigs high in power make way too much than they really should and people on the bottom of the ladder work harder then they do. And I thought about the work and even though it's out of retail.. I'm just not that type of nerdy style any ways... and yes I ate at Talliano's pizza the other day and there was a CPA office next door and yes the fella in there seriously had the typical accounting outfit... So instead I need to heavily work out for a year and have bulging muscles so when I have my welding flamethrowing and heavy steel mask I can work with my shirt off flexing all day... that's how welders are in the movies right? But my concern lies in my current job. One is the holiday schedule... I can be held up to twelve hours for the six days I will work. And night class starts at 5:30... not the way to end a semester missing half the class... Last year there was no twelve hour days and many times not even eight hour days, but this year will be even more unpredictable with us getting volume from two of the centers that will be closed in september or in that time frame. That proposes a big worry. The other issue is the classes would be mon through thurs 5:30 to 9:00 I believe. That stretches the program to two years so I would have to deal with work and hours changing even longer. Another issue is they are starting to bring everyone in to work an hour later and my current shift that would make me get out at six pm and that means missing class... And no shift change openings for the day shift has been up for a few months now. My next option... move back to the night shift. I started working the night shift and wasn't too bad, but when I was doing the two jobs and school (well didn't really do much in there but wing most of what I did) I would be tired in the evenings. But I was also coming from a job of being super bored and drained vs if I was coming in from a day of school of interesting learning I think I will be more vitalized. Which comes to my decision of going back to evenings. Chances are I will be going in to work between four and five. I can't stay much later than one am.. The other plus is if I have any break time such as lunch or even a thirty minute here or there between classes I am literally a minute from the school. If that even. Turn right from there go under bridge and I'm about home... same street and all. Earliest class starts at 7:30 and latests to stay is 3:30.. this way I put work in a better situation.. if I suddenly have to stay twelve hours during the holiday... it would suck completely, but I won't run over into school... I may just get a few hours here and there and learn powernapping in my vehicle haha. But getting schooling done in a year gives me a better chance to start looking for a career sooner and is also better than two years since my current job is not set in stone ever. Better technology to less mail volume and how knows in two years maybe this location closes and leaves only one. I don't see it happen in one year and not really two since another location closes sometime next year.. but year three who knows. And I know I won't have the budget to drop down much from what I make know.
I'm putting my financies in check now, but I can't just make them vanish any time soon or even in the next five years. I can rid most of my credit card debt quickly, but that rather means I use up my available home equity line of credit. Which isn't too bad at 5% vs 20% 16%... But even with paying my equity and preschool that can eat up a full paycheck sometimes leaving me with a hundred bucks.. Then the other check goes to bills... Fun times... But if I only have to do another year and get a career going where i can get back into 401k and some benefits... I will just be more comfortable and can manage my debt a tad better and be able to handle upcoming surprises... like a car for my daughter. :)

Which means depending on the work schedule I can get.. I'm hoping for fri sat or fri sun... sat sun be great, but there are 541 people that get top picks over my choice so odds are slim for any of those, but I will keep on trying. I just don't want to work evening on friday and a weekend since that does take a good chunk away from my daughter vs when I had friday evenings open with my daughter... but again just going to be a sacrfice I will have to do and then maybe I can have weekends off at my career and actually get holidays off and paid for them too! I know Skye will understand if not now when she is older she will. I guess I can work sat and sun since if I'm going in at five I still get two full days with her... pretty much takes out weekend social life, but I'm so sporadic on social life no big deal. I have stayed out later more on the weekdays then the weekends any ways, but it will mean no going out will be happening... It will only may be four nights a month I can get the chance to go out... I won't be going out after work if I only have to get up in six and half hours to get to school. I think a year won't have a drastic change on everyone and everything... So maybe my dad or brother will get to read the three stories at night for sat and sun unless I can go home early and survive by doing so... I think will since my daughters time is worth more than the money I would make to only chip away at a debt a bit faster. Open work schedule offerings are very unpredictable as well... I got a day shift last year I think in september or so... and got a better day shift not much later and then there were no shift offerings... I think it all depends on people leaving and people changing shifts that creates the shift bidding to open up. So maybe I will just take a 40 hour evening shift no matter the days off for now just to be safe. Just as long as I can get either sat or sun off I will be happy.

I did downgrade to my old phone and dropped texts down to 200 a month. So I will have no access or free access to the net and won't be texting much and that is why my onlline pressence will be very little. If I have thirty minutes to be at home before going to work I won't be hoping on FB or twitter and reading up on everything and posting... Simply because I just can't. But since I have some concerned peeps I might pop on the data plan on my phone since it's fifteen bucks... I bet I will end up doing so.. I can justify it since I know fishing trips will be even harder when I have work and school to compete and one trip a longer away trip and hauling a boat as well and food can cost me a hundred bucks in one day. So if I miss two of those big trips... then that covers my data plan for the year... I will decided when everything is all set. For school I do know financial aid is a go just have to wait and see with the award letter. That is the biggest concern. The program will cost around $8k. I'm accepted and now it's just waiting for the transcripts to be evaluated and see all the courses that will transfer. But the advisor said from Newman alone it looks like all the prereq classes should be covered. (WSU trasncript not arrived or in system yet) I have gone many years w/out even going out once! So I think one year of very little going out I can manage.

So this is my final plan... If it doesn't work I don't know exactly what to do... Maybe get my mafia going strong and get the right members. Even shape up the town a bit.. while banking the dough... no uzzis and machine gun business.. be right to the point.. high precision rifles that will be under our own name and we will be members of the NRA so we can freely have them on our gun rack in our vehicle. Since I'm not a purebred anything... I guess it will be my muttfia.