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[delight]

What feels like totally nuts right now: doing a double major BA/MS at the same time as AHIMA's online coding training^*. Plus the pre-med courses I don't actually have as a part of either degree.

What feels like exactly the right thing to be doing with my life: the above.

What I am actually doing: that.

Shockingly, it works out that I actually will have a lot more time to do things I enjoy (like, um, RPing and playing on Flight Rising -- other than that reading psychology and medical texts/news/etc is the primary thing I enjoy and I'll be required to do that) based on how a lot of family stuff that got dumped on me that has been consuming 800% of my time will be summarily removed from my shoulders as I cannot possibly be able to do it. So I can hop back on to Second Pass (I could cry) without issue and actually move on with my life and detach from family baggage as much as humanly possible.

All of this is good. Being able to actually pay the bills would make it all a lot better; despite the fact I should be getting about $4700 in Pell grant, we still have two months of unpaid rent and phone bills. Money is the absolute worst.

(Plus, DW housekeeping -- mostly for my own mental health, so I don't look back in my journal and end up upset like I did last night -- is really exhausting without paid time. DELETE/PRIVATE ONE ENTRY AT A TIME FOREVER. At least I have something to do while I wait for people to get home? I don't have enough online time to do anything else. I'd rather just delete EVERYTHING after making an archive, but I don't think I actually can.) (DW housekeeping is done, because finch is AWESOME.)


* Not that I have any idea if a CCA alone is enough to get any sort of work at all, but I can hope it is, since I can't go straight to the CCS without more experience based on exam requirements.

Comments

[lone_lilly]

Hey, you actually can take the CCS whenever if that's what you want. They want you to have experience but many people take it fresh out of college with no experience. The requirements page makes it look a lot harder to apply than it is. Basically, if you are willing to pay the money, they will let you take the test. They approve your application in a matter of minutes.

Personally, from my experience applying for jobs and watching the hiring process in action at my current job, I do think it would be worth it to go straight for the CCS if time and money allow it!

Remind me, too, to send you an email of what my testing experience was like. :)