I really struggle with the willpower thing. I'm trying, at present, to come to terms with living a simpler (read less expensive and smarter) financial life and it's well, it's a struggle tried and true. And it affects me in little ways (I feel sorry for myself when I notice threads hanging on my clothes or holes in the hand me down from mom dress) and big ways (frustration over how much longer i must sit at the day job before i can try and work independently, coming to terms with never going to grad school). I guess what I'm finding I lack the most and need to work on is the patience to sit tight for a small amount of time and just trust that if I do, the money will build, get funneled into the right places (in terms of priority) and that eventually I will be rewarded with things I want/need. Squashing the want is hard, especially given my favorite past time of planning/dreaming for the future, but it's made easier by focusing on the moment and the day and trusting that what lies ahead will be good, even better.
I hear you. I totally do. I have been a total baby (hopefully mostly inside my head) about the state of my office wardrobe lately. It's fine, I'm appropriate and all, but things aren't new or stylish and wannnhTyler and I have a concept that comes into play in almost every aspect of life: don't rely on self control, instead make sure you have situation control. It's been big with trying to get into shape lately. Ha! I just, literally as I'm writing this sentence, got an email saying we should change our dinner plans because we will totally overeat at the all-you-can-eat mongolian grill buffet we were talking about. He's not wrong
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A word of encouragement...icewolf010June 11 2010, 16:38:06 UTC
Your calculations don't take grants and scholarships into account. You're right not to count on them, but they're out there, especially for someone working in an "underserved community" (which just about all of Baltimore counts as, from a statistical point of view).
Re: A word of encouragement...madmoisellestarJune 11 2010, 17:06:51 UTC
His job will pay for some of school (I don't know exactly how much) but then he has to stay there for some number of years after he finishes the degree, or pay them back when he leaves. Even if we take the money I'd want to have the amount to pay them back, especially since one of the big perks of the MLS is mobility.
I'm going to have to pick your brain, since I'm going to be applying to grad school come fall (University of FL Online MA of Latin). And I'm looking at about 3-4 years to finish it (the advantage is that my pay bonus for masters equivalency will probably kick in a good bit before I actually get the masters, just by virtue of the number of credits).
It's awesome that you guys can work together on this kind of thing. I could really use some checks and balances on my checks and balances (I know, but it was too good not to...)
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It's awesome that you guys can work together on this kind of thing. I could really use some checks and balances on my checks and balances (I know, but it was too good not to...)
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