Any Help For Single Father s Who Want To Go Back To School And Being Unable To Work While Doing So?

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Oh, well, just a thought.

Does your parish have a job help program? Our parish has one, but usually the people who avail themselves of it are those who have lost jobs and are looking for a new job.
 
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As far as I know, it doesn’t.

I did talk with my direct supervisor and he let me know he would let me do part-time while I go to school. I explained to him that I am getting too old for this job and he gave me a hard time about saying that. He himself is 38 years old. I let him know that I need a better paying job with a more consistent schedule than what I have been getting here. He understood.

The program isn’t for another year and a half because I missed the intake deadline. The class starts in July. So, I need to wait till July of 2020 to start the program. I just have to stick it out at this job for a year and a half till I can go part-time and then hopefully a year after that I can start my new career.
 
In the mean time you can keep your eyes on job openings at the hospital and sock away some extra dollars 🙂
 
I think your best bet would be to quit your EMT job while you are in school and find something with more flexible hours. The Target near my house has starting pay of $ 15 per hour, and I don’t live in an extraoridary geographical location. Starbucks, the same thing.

I don’t blame you for being concerned about that schedule of work and school you laid out. It doesn’t sound sustainable, even for a short stint in school.
 
Take a look at any UPS package facilities in your area. Part time package handler hours work pretty well with another job or college studies, there’s tuition reimbursement (I think it’s up to $5K/year?), it’s a union job, it provides very low cost but very good union healthcare for the whole family…it’s hard work, but in a more controlled setting than EMS. Something to think about while you sort out the surgical tech program.
 
Thank you for the response.

The closest one to me is about an hour away. Not sure I would be willing to drive an hour for a part-time job, but something to think about.
 
Didn’t you post somewhere that you’re responsible for medical? Cutting that expense alone could more than pay for the drive. Plus tuition assistance? And job security, paid holidays, overtime at 5hrs instead of 8, holiday retention bonuses weekly, paid vacation after a year…nah, you’re right. Totally not worth it given your other options…
 
I did say I would think about it, no?

I’m supposed to say I’ll get right on it?

If I wanted someone to give me grief because I said I would think about something that was said to me I would just talk to my mother.
 
Thank you everyone for your responses.

I have it sorted out on how I can work and go back to school.
 
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If I wanted someone to give me grief because I said I would think about something that was said to me I would just talk to my mother.
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This is your response to people trying to help you? If this is how you would respond about your own mother, perhaps the real issue lies within. On many of your threads, people offer you suggestions and you shoot them all down. It makes me wonder why you ask for help, and then are not very gracious. No one is expecting you to run out and do what they say, but there is a way to acknowledge people’s answers without being so dismissive.

Good luck with whatever solution you seem to have come up with.
 
Thank you!

I am just going to stay with the EMT job part-time once school starts. Until school starts I will remain there full-time.

It’s good in a way that the class is so far out because I need to take a TABE test and while I should be good in the English department, the math section I’m not so sure about. I never made it past adding and subtracting fractions in high school. People have tried to teach me beyond that point, but it just doesn’t click in my head.

So, that is the only thing now that worries me at this point .
 
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I tried Khan Academy before. I agree it was good, but didn’t help me much.

For some reason, math just doesn’t come to me very easy once I get beyond simple math. I can do some algebra, but simple problems, such as 2+X=10, solve for X. Once you start adding in fractions and decimals that is where I cannot seem to gain an understanding.

Do some people just not get past a certain point in math?
 
Probably just as pretty as me doing fractions.

If I don’t meet a certain grade level on the test, it means that I cannot do the program. So, my plan is to take the test, and if I fail I’ll know where I need to focus, but haven taking something similar when vocational rehab was paying for my hand surgery in 2011 my issue is as stated above. My math was only at a 7th grade level and barely that. The program requires a 10th grade level in math and above.
 
So I talked to the school I want to go to in order to find out exactly what I needed to get into the surgical tech program. It’s not good.

I’ll need 11th grade proficiency in language and reading. That’s not an issue. I can do that. Math scares me as I’ll need a 10th grade proficiency level in math and that’s algebra 2. I’m not sure I can learn that and be able to take the test and sign up for the class in January. It is well above anything else I learned in math. I can’t even remember prime numbers even after just studying them.

Maybe this isn’t such a good idea after all.
 
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Do they have a remediation for Math that you can take now? Educators have a better understanding these days, that different people learn in different ways, and they may have a method that clicks with you. Don’t give up! I’ve seen you so down here and this has brought you hope. I will be your cheerleader!!!
 
There is remediation, but after you take the test, not before.

My GF said she’ll help me learn it before taking the test.

Thank you!
 
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