School or Work? Work or School?

[PCHO]

I am currently living with my aunt while I attend college. She's giving me a great deal for rent, $100 a month for a master bedroom in the Walnut Creek, CA hills (Bay Area dwellers can appreciate that).

Well I recently started working at Best Buy again and I doing really well again. Within a month I've gotten a promotion to Department Senior and a pay raise from $12.50 to $17 an hour. My superiors are starting to talk about grooming me for a department supervisor spot and probably management training after that.

Hearing this made me very happy of course as a Best Buy sales manager in this area makes upwards of $60-75K per year and to be pulling in that kind of money by the time im 25 would be very nice indeed, not to mention the greener pastures of higher level management.

MY major problem is that with myself currently on the fast track with Best Buy I have been considering taking a year off of school to see how it goes. I would hate to spend 4 years in school only to keep working the same retail job that I could have had without spending the time and money for college. I REALLY like what I do and I feel that I am pretty good at it.

The only issue that I'm having is my aunt. After my mother passed away she took over as somewhat of a surrogate mother for me so her opinion of what I do is very important to me. I ran my idea of taking a year off to her and she flipped. She said I was throwing my life away and that if that was what I wanted to do than I was out of her life totally and completely.

What do I do?

 

[yasha]

Hey, since your in Walnut Creek, can you check on my Viewsonic RMA status? *LOL* That's where they're located

 

[TheAvenger]

The most important thing is to do what makes you happy. If after a year it's not what you wanted go to school.

 

[Alienwho]

Take a year off, it's not like you're dropping out. Lots of people do this kind of stuff it isn't a big deal.

 

[Hyperblaze]

I suggest keep doing what you've been doing. Get your piece of paper (diploma) and working at best buy. As soon as you get school out of the way you'll have so many more opportunities.

And if things don't work out at Best-buy...well...you'll be able to open another door to another future!

 

[linuxboy]

do both.

taking 15 credits per term is not too difficult. you can work and take evening classes or do classes online or something of that nature.


if anything hapens at BB, you'll be screwed since you've closed the "education door" for yourself prematurely.
once time comes to get promotions, you will be passed up and people with degrees will get the job. It may not happen to you, but I've seen it happen enough to consider it an almost absolute certainty. Do yourself a favor and finish the degree

 

[b0mbrman]

Take time off school if you want. It's not the end of the world ever. When I left to take a semester off, I filed my readmission papers before I even moved out.

 

[RalphWiggum]

I faced a similar situation and I opted to take a semester off to work. However, I did it in the field I am studying in so it wasn't quite as big a decision.

I faced the same kind of resistance but I am glad I did it and my mom let me make up my own mind.

Why don't you try doing it for a quarter first to show some compromise and respect for your aunt's wishes. Then you can decide from there. And, ask yourself if you will regret missing that opportunity. If you will, by all means do it. Graduating late is no big deal.

Walnut Creek huh? What school do you go to?

 

[AtriumBruin]

you guys, you are forgetting that when he suggested taking time off of school, his aunt/surrogate mother was very upset. would it be possible to do both?

 

[raven82]

its not to hard to take sometime off. maybe you could also do some night school.

 

[IJump]

Drop out of school, quit qork, wander around the country for a year. Then see if things are any better.

I would see if you can make a deal with your aunt before dropping out. You may end up with a $17/hr job and no place to live. That would suck.