I took a college program,an art and design program. It was a year long, I graduated. Recently I applied to take animation a 3 year program this fall. I was accepted. This program is a lot of money. I'm lucky enough to have a bursary (until i'm 25). For the record, i'm 20 (21 on the 27th). I'm thinking about getting my own place, taking a year off and thinking about what I really want to do. Because i'm unsure about animation. I don't have a job so I realize this would be the first step. I spend a lot of my time over analyzing. I'm trapped in my head and I feel that I don't get out and live or chase my dreams. I'm wasting my life. I think living on my own will be a reality bitch slap. I think I need this, that I need to grow up and stop being dependent on my parents. (They aren't handing out money or anything of that sort,but I do live with them so essentially its sucking the teet) Do I get a job and save for books and go to school..live at home. Take this path though im unsure of this program. The easy way? Or get a job, work my ass off. Take the scenic route. Have some experiences, learn some lessons. Have my own place. Stop being a lazy person, figure out what I want to do. Be an adult. And go back to school after a year? I want your feedback.
I personally feel that you should take a year off and think of what you want to do if you're already having 2nd thoughts. I would say try to get a job and move out once you have the job, just see what it's really like to work, and as you said, experience a bit more. Don't let your thoughts negate your actions, just let be and take everything genuinely as it comes. A year off is not really affecting you in the long run. Choose your career wisely, it's what you will most likely do for the rest of your life; the life that you are worried about passing you by.
If you go to work and live on your own it will take a really long time for you to go back to school since you will need to have money to spare to pay for it. At least that's what happened to me. Once I started living on my own, there was no way I could tolerate going back with my parents, so I had to wait until I started making a lot better money and take night classes that didn't interfere with my work schedule. Don't know if this helps, just telling you my experience.
my dad works at the college id be attending so my education is basically paid for aside for supplies ( you have to pay with your own money in advance and then you get it back) osap is funding from the government, student loans. I have thebursary until im 25.
I really feel exactly the same way. I have been stuck in my mind for a few years now, outside of the life in front of my eyes. I'm waking up and wanting to move out of the nest, I compare this to nature, no society in nature the bird drops the child, it's time to leave and chase my dreams instead of spending idle time fiddling my life away. Okay, I think there is nothing you are supposed to do, it is what *you WANT. not supposed, what you want. okay, if you want to go for art, do it! but do you need college? no, not in my opinion. you can enhance your skills without college, suck every resource you have. innovate. you don't need a job to make money. if you have a skill, use it. do you have a skill for art? make t shirts, posters, pictures, sell them. you don't need a job for money to get into college. you can make it on your own, where there is a will there is a way.
If someone else is paying for it you better jump on it. You'll be kicking yourself in the ass for years after if you don't. I flunked out of college from non-stop partying when my dad was paying for it, then had to start paying for it myself when I was 30.
You don't understand. It's a bursury. That means it's paid for. It is an opportunity I have, until i'm 25. Osap would be used to pay upfront. The bursury gives me back the money that is paid upfront. I'm 21. My dad isn't going to "pay for it" He's just letting me use the benefits that are offered. He'd help pay for my books if I went this year. But im not sure on this program. Thats why Im considering taking a year to collect my thoughts. Its a wonderful opportunity, but it's wasted on me anyways if it's not really what I want to do. My parents have been subsidizing my existence for a long time. Birds need to leave the nest. I mean Im sure my parents would absolutely love the time alone. Even tho they want me to been in school right away (they are worried that I will take more than a year) Idk.
You wonder why you keep getting jumped on... it's because of things like this... It doesn't matter if your father is paying for it, the school is paying for it or some aliens from planet bettlejuice are paying for it. The point was, if you have the opportunity to go to school and have it paid for, you would be silly to let that pass by, if you were going to want to do it later. Once you move out on your own, you will find it extremely difficult to balance life and going to school... possible yes, but 1000 times harder then what you have been freely given.
i think you know deep down what you want to do. trust me i am 27 i had a great life i had a degree i worked my ass off for 6 years to get, i had a boyfriend who was the love of my life, i had a place of my own, friends, a great job which i loved, an amazing family,and i was very greatful for all of this, but it has all been taken away from me, i suffer from chronic diverticulitis, it means i am in extream pain everyday, sometimes it is so bad i can't move. i lost my job as i spent more time in hospital than i did at home and was to ill to work, my bf left me, i lost my flat and had to move back in with my mum, now i spend everyday of my life in pain, stuck infront of a tv waisting away, i had so much, and now im faced with having to start my life over. the point im trying to make is no one knowes what tomorrow will bring so live your life for now, do what makes you happy, and live realy live.
