Spot of dilema.
So I have an issue and I'm giving myself the weekend to think it over.
So I may potentially have the opportunity to continue working at the USDA-ARS under the position of lab technician. If that happens I will have the opportunity to go back to school on the governments money fully funded to get a BS degree. However said degree will have to be science based. I'm not particularly great at science but hey for a free degree I could make it happen. The only problem is that I may eventually move. And then what? I don't know that I necessarily wish to continue working for the USDA for the rest of my life. Especially this particular station in which i would receive little to no advancement and possibly few real pay advancements. Due entirely to the fact that I work under Dr. Barbara. The research leader over the station does what he can to plop up road blocks. And to further this issue this is a mans world particularly run on the good old boy system. Dr. Barbara is the ONLY female scientist/researcher here. Sure there's plenty of technicians that are female but she's the only woman. I would count dr.marshall but even then the research leader won't allow her ot assume a full fledged scientific position.
All of the above, however, depends entirely on Dr.Smith getting her grant and after that she would need permission from the head honcho to authorize my going back to school. The margin for this not happening is certainly there. And it has me feeling more than a little bit wary.
This is mighty fine carrot to wave in someone's face. All expenses paid education, even gas, its a hell of an opportunity and I would have to be a fool not to take it up.
But like I said earlier. Science isn't my thing and when I started to look around at the science programs to see if they had anything I could do fast and easy the outlook was a tad grim. Then i poked around further and found a program that's almost tailor made for me. Office administration. I know it sounds boring to a lot of people, but I can organize like crazy and I actually enjoy paperwork. The more I look at the more interested I become because I know this is something I'm already naturally good at and I would love to run an office. But to do this I would most likely have to take out the student loans and put myself in fabulous debt position. Yey? Haha.
But it feels right to me. So what do you think is better.
A)The fabulous carrot of opportunity in a subject that I'm not particularly good at in a position with limited to no opportunities for advancement.
OR
B) Go into debt to study for a degree that I can honestly say I'll be able to use and apply to the type of job I do well.
Tough!
So I may potentially have the opportunity to continue working at the USDA-ARS under the position of lab technician. If that happens I will have the opportunity to go back to school on the governments money fully funded to get a BS degree. However said degree will have to be science based. I'm not particularly great at science but hey for a free degree I could make it happen. The only problem is that I may eventually move. And then what? I don't know that I necessarily wish to continue working for the USDA for the rest of my life. Especially this particular station in which i would receive little to no advancement and possibly few real pay advancements. Due entirely to the fact that I work under Dr. Barbara. The research leader over the station does what he can to plop up road blocks. And to further this issue this is a mans world particularly run on the good old boy system. Dr. Barbara is the ONLY female scientist/researcher here. Sure there's plenty of technicians that are female but she's the only woman. I would count dr.marshall but even then the research leader won't allow her ot assume a full fledged scientific position.
All of the above, however, depends entirely on Dr.Smith getting her grant and after that she would need permission from the head honcho to authorize my going back to school. The margin for this not happening is certainly there. And it has me feeling more than a little bit wary.
This is mighty fine carrot to wave in someone's face. All expenses paid education, even gas, its a hell of an opportunity and I would have to be a fool not to take it up.
But like I said earlier. Science isn't my thing and when I started to look around at the science programs to see if they had anything I could do fast and easy the outlook was a tad grim. Then i poked around further and found a program that's almost tailor made for me. Office administration. I know it sounds boring to a lot of people, but I can organize like crazy and I actually enjoy paperwork. The more I look at the more interested I become because I know this is something I'm already naturally good at and I would love to run an office. But to do this I would most likely have to take out the student loans and put myself in fabulous debt position. Yey? Haha.
But it feels right to me. So what do you think is better.
A)The fabulous carrot of opportunity in a subject that I'm not particularly good at in a position with limited to no opportunities for advancement.
OR
B) Go into debt to study for a degree that I can honestly say I'll be able to use and apply to the type of job I do well.
Tough!