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I should have made a thread like this sooner, this seems a bit l8

Im taking some classes for some certifications so I can get a better job. I expect that this first week of classes is going to kick my entire body off, just leaving the ass behind. It culminates in an exam on friday, and my success or failure on that exam will dictate if I get to move forward and get a lot of my classes paid for by the government, or if that doesnt happen at all and my career prospects for the next few months continue to suck.

It's kinda high pressure.

If I'm lucky I can squeeze an hour in for SA here and there, but I don't think I can even count on that until after Friday

Update, I did very well on the test. I'm going to be able to do the training.

I'm actually kinda stoked because I've been underemployed / unemployed since graduation and now I'm on the way to fixing that.

The financial aid situation is up in the air as of now, but I have family members who say that if it doesn't pan out they'll be able to help me with it.

Good news, then: I got all my training funded. yay.

I had to put out a couple of fires in my life recently, and I did a bad job of communicating that on site; that's why my activity was kill for the last few days. More specifically: car trouble, trouble with doctors, trouble with finances, and trouble with family. It sucked, but at least that's all under control now. Sorry for that lack of communication.

For the next 11 weeks I'm going to be in that training thing. I don't entirely know what this will mean for my activity level, but I don't think this course will be quite as high-stress as the week I told you all about in the opening post. I also have some very positive things going on in my life that are giving me a lot of energy and motivation, which I've had very little of for a long while - this might counterbalance the "all of my time is being eaten up" issue?

I'll keep you posted.

update: Officially, I'm doing 9 hour days 5 days a week at the training place. But I'm also expected to spend multiple hours a day reading to keep up with the program outside of that, and I'm also doing that at the training place because it's a good study environment. If this doesn't slow down, it means I'm effectively doing 60 hour weeks for the next 11 weeks, before considering transit times and stuff.

I don't think I'll be able to consistently commit blocks of time to posting except on weekends - right after I post this I'm going to set my posting status to "weekly," and my mod status to "mostly unavailable on weekdays."

that said, WATCH AND BE AMAZED as I just start posting through my phone on my lunch breaks every weekday, or otherwise just ignore the need for sleep to post. If I wanted 8 hours i'd have been asleep 10 minutes ago, but im probably going to knock a post or two out

Update 2: this did not happen, i sort of dozed off in my chair instead, rip