Just put in my two weeks notice

"claramag, Mustaco Master" (claramag) 08/03/2014 at 21:04 • Filed to: None

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I've been working at this office for a little shy of 2 years now, longest I've ever stayed at a place, to head off to college. I got a lease lined up to sign, utilities ready to set up, all my stuff packed and furniture ready to go. It's been a fun 4 years since high school, but it's time to get back into the educational environment.

It's odd, doing the whole 'moving forward with life' thing. If living with minimal internet, biking around everywhere, not burning through tyres like a carton of milk, and paying someone money to sit in a desk lets me buy better cars and do better mods in the future, it'll be worth it. Here's to hoping it'll be fun, oppo.

(Pic related in the sense that I better be able to afford a rally spec'd one of these when I'm done)

Conan > claramag, Mustaco Master 08/03/2014 at 21:07

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Keep it up. Don't let anybody or anything distract you. There is always mobility and chances in America no matter how much some people try to deny it.

My citroen won't start > claramag, Mustaco Master 08/03/2014 at 21:16

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You can always try and get the Carrera GTS Club sport if things don't go as planned.

pirates-ecu > claramag, Mustaco Master 08/03/2014 at 21:26

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NO CLASSES BEFORE 10 am.... take your easiest classes first semester, do well, build that GPA up.

If you have a 4.0 after the first semester life is gravy from there on... If you screw up you will be fighting out of the hole for the next 4 years.

claramag, Mustaco Master > pirates-ecu 08/03/2014 at 21:39

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...I have multiple days of 0800-1700

pirates-ecu > claramag, Mustaco Master 08/03/2014 at 21:54

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just make yourself go. I screwed up at 18 and didn't kick ass my first semester.... I am the opposite of you, fucked up early, worked my early - mid twenties, and just now, at almost 30, am I about to get my degrees.

dogisbadob > claramag, Mustaco Master 08/03/2014 at 21:55

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Good luck with college! I hope you do well.

dogisbadob > claramag, Mustaco Master 08/03/2014 at 21:55

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not phone dials :(

claramag, Mustaco Master > dogisbadob 08/03/2014 at 22:04

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yessssss phone dials! They're one of my favourite Porsche design elements

claramag, Mustaco Master > pirates-ecu 08/03/2014 at 22:08

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oh I choose those hours. I have no problem waking up at 0630 2-3 times a week. I'm just hoping work ethic translates to study ethic

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > claramag, Mustaco Master 08/03/2014 at 22:17

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What are you going into?

pirates-ecu > claramag, Mustaco Master 08/03/2014 at 22:17

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the biggest thing is that you are responsible for your own education. I have had massive success with all online classes as much as possible, because it forces me to teach myself.

You just have to read everything, make notes, and be sure you understand it. Working hard is working hard... You sound like you have it figured out...

claramag, Mustaco Master > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 08/03/2014 at 22:27

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industrial/pipeline welding, with a side of roll cage fabbing

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > claramag, Mustaco Master 08/03/2014 at 22:29

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Cool, cool. Welding is fun and stick welding is interesting to say the least.

Stef Schrader > claramag, Mustaco Master 08/04/2014 at 01:29

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<3!

orcim > claramag, Mustaco Master 08/04/2014 at 04:32

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Nice. Even when it's scary or hard or just plain *unnatural*, moving forward always ends up positive. Saw in another post that you're into a specific trade focus which 1) I believe will be valuable in the future and 2) has a bunch of other trade/engineering offshoots that could help make some serious hay for you (specialty applications, new applications associated with new metallurgy coming out, etc.) Being able to paste together and cut apart (plasma cutters are SOOO cheap) the necessities of life is gonna be big. Assuming the energy holds out, which I think it will for your lifetime.

Keep a weather eye out for jobs/internships in your field. (Visit those places of business at least every 2 months if you have to and see if they want a student doing work. Can't hurt, and *definitely* helps.) Then follow the advice of others here for following the rules in the first 2 years really closely and performing well. If you think your instructors are idiots, then just figure out what an A means to them, and not what it means to you and perform. That's actually a skill they don't tell you you're learning, but you are. In your Jr. and Sr. years, you can mess around, challenge the status quo, finding your friend/instructors and bonding with them.