education!

[zanacal]

I agree and if I'd gone to uni I probably would have spent 3 years having fun but I'm not sure how much help my degree would even have been - and now I'm probably in the same place (or better!) than I would have been anyway! DH also has a very good job as an Engineer but he completely flunked his GCSE's and didn't start training until later in his life (also alongside his job).

[mybluepilot]

I graduated from my bachelors degree in biology, then got married and now working on my masters degree in health administration and management, I love working but good hours are my number one priority, I like to have the time to spend with my girls. I will take a break before I apply for a Phd. I will wait till I am done having kids and they are all in good schools.

[KnockYourBallsOff]

I have my Bach in PR and Communications, MAster's in Education. Worked in various industries, then taught for 4 years, now a SAHM who is homeschooling

[mybluepilot]

KYB good for you all around , the high education and the home schooling I would love to home school my kids but I always think I am not good enough to take such a role

[Lilian78]

I have a bachelors in psychology and a J.D. (law degree). I'm glad I did it, but now I spend a lot of time dreaming of becoming a SAHM

[purplepoet20]

I graduated high school at 14... I was delivering a note to the teacher who was giving practice testing to the SAT kids and he thought I was there for the test so he told me to sit down. My brother was testing so he told me to just sit and take the test, we were always trying to see who was smarter. Later we learned I did really good. My brother and I took the real test together and I scored higher then him. The school did IQ and other testing and I did so well they gave me a diploma... my mother guilted me into staying home with my younger brother because she doesn't like it when her kids are smarter then her. She thinks she was a child genius but no way, we got our smarts from our dad who is a math and science genius.

I did attend college but I started out with Phlebotomy and then I was going to move on to Microbiology... I really wanted to be a medical researcher and find a cure for rare diseases like Progeria. I wanted kids but I never thought it would happen. I think my dream will have to change because I want a job that allows me to be home when my kids get home from school. I am thinking computer progamming so many I would be able to do some work from home in the evenings.

I am currently writing several books... I can never focus on one at a time. I have a few kids books and another one that I don't really want to talk about. I don't use my real name when I write because I want my family and friends to buy-read-like the book on their own free-will and not lie to me.

[purplepoet20]

KYB good for you all around , the high education and the home schooling I would love to home school my kids but I always think I am not good enough to take such a role

All you have to do to be a great homeschooling mom is know what would work best for your family. There are so many great homeschooling moms who have no formal education.

[begonia]

Now I would actually enjoy going back and would major in biology, it's a pity that it takes you until you're too old before you realize where your interests actually lie!!

This is scientifically true in some ways, you know ... the part of your brain that allows you to fully comprehend the long-term impacts of the decisions you make isn't fully developed until your mid-20's. I certainly didn't pick my college major with my "interests" in mind. I picked it because I was making the best grades in what was considered a difficult class, and I'm competitive like that

Anyhow I have a BS in Accounting and MS in Information Systems, but have been a SAHM since DD1 arrived.

[LolaInLove]

I have a bachelor's degree in arts administration from an expensive private ivy league school in the US that the loans are kicking my butt for!!!! But my DH never went to college. Like most professional dancers, he went straight from HS to dance in a company, and is now almost 39. He is now about to do his last year as a dancers and is starting college to get a degree in physical therapy, which will take him probably 5-6 years. He will be working during that time, choreographing and teaching, but the dancing part is over, he's getting too broken down. So, it's never too late to go back to school! I am even thinking about going to med school to become an ob/gyn in a couple of years, and I'm 35 now. NEVER TO LATE!!! And I also TOTALLY agree with whoever posted that you don't need an education to be intelligent. Nor does a fancy education make you intelligent! There is nothing you can't learn from books from the library...heck, you could teach yourself anything these days.

[XXdreaming]

I would love to be an ob/gyn or a midwife, I thought about being an u/s tech and just specialize in pregnancy, then I love music and thought about being a choir director lol or major in music in somthing but I cant even sing or play anything so that would be starting from scratch lol