Dec 01, 2008 6:36 AM GMT
I'll leave this open-ended since I'm interested to hear your responses. Here's my scenario and what I'm fighting with:
I was laid off a few months back and had to move back home for what I thought would be temporarily. Got offered a few jobs right away, but decided I'd be better off going back to school, and got accepted into the only one I applied to for the spring.
Problem is, after crunching numbers the last two weeks, I realize going back in the fall could save me as much as $15k per year (with a possible Teacher's Assistant-ship and a couple other things). So I deferred my acceptance, and just finished four other applications. Hopefully I'll have some good choices in the early spring.
Question is the subject header: What to do with the next 6-8 months? I'm financially secure - didn't make dumb decisions after college, all car/computer/school debt is paid off, and I'm earning some mediocre money from unemployment (which goes until March) and a few freelance gigs on the side (plus, at the moment, no major bills save my cell phone and car/health insurance).
I can do temp work but obviously can't lie to these places about my future plans. I can be portable (and wouldn't mind leave Cincinnati, honestly), but sadly, I realized this week I'm too late to apply for a Fullbright scholarship to study overseas, and I can't keep living here (for sanity purposes and for the finances of the family).
So, if you had this time frame to do whatever before returning to class, what would you do?
I was laid off a few months back and had to move back home for what I thought would be temporarily. Got offered a few jobs right away, but decided I'd be better off going back to school, and got accepted into the only one I applied to for the spring.
Problem is, after crunching numbers the last two weeks, I realize going back in the fall could save me as much as $15k per year (with a possible Teacher's Assistant-ship and a couple other things). So I deferred my acceptance, and just finished four other applications. Hopefully I'll have some good choices in the early spring.
Question is the subject header: What to do with the next 6-8 months? I'm financially secure - didn't make dumb decisions after college, all car/computer/school debt is paid off, and I'm earning some mediocre money from unemployment (which goes until March) and a few freelance gigs on the side (plus, at the moment, no major bills save my cell phone and car/health insurance).
I can do temp work but obviously can't lie to these places about my future plans. I can be portable (and wouldn't mind leave Cincinnati, honestly), but sadly, I realized this week I'm too late to apply for a Fullbright scholarship to study overseas, and I can't keep living here (for sanity purposes and for the finances of the family).
So, if you had this time frame to do whatever before returning to class, what would you do?
