Sometimes life isn’t fair and your family doesn’t have extra money to send a kid to college.
I was in that situation when I was 17-yrs old. So I enlisted in the U.S. Army, and when I got out I used the G.I. Bill and my accumulated savings to pay for a university education. I also had two part-time jobs, working as a swing-shift custodian during the week, and at a car wash on weekends. It was hard work, but it can be done.
I am looking at going back to tech college part time as I need to do something else. I'm looking at a couple of quick certificate programs for the short term. One is electronics maintenance/servicing and the other involves industrial robotics with maybe trying to tackle both.
In my part of the world, IT tech jobs aren't that plentiful and break/fix/mass deployment gigs are near dry. There certainly aren't any in my old line of work in TV.
Years ago some of my TV co-irkers gave me grief about going to school to learn to fix computers and other technology, getting certs, etc. In the long run I made the right decision. Nikki Haley, economics, and technology will most likely do away with my former ETV employer. From what I hear of life inside there, it is downright miserable because it was an actual OK place for many years. It really isn't all that necessary any more.
Theoretically lottery assisted tuition assistance is available to SC residents regardless of income but my situation is rather weird and don't expect any help but it would be nice.
Right, life isn’t easy. This seems to be something that conservatives understand but liberals don’t.