Tom,
I can't agree more with anything you've said than I do right now. I think this is where I'm at, though. You've given me a light bulb moment.
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Originally Posted by Tom Edgerton
If for some reason it's important for you to have a university degree--that it will satisfy something inside you that wants it--
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I quit high school, and got a GED, when I was sixteen years old in order to marry a man ten years older than myself. At the time, I had been going to high school half a day and to the college the other half a day to study painting and design. I quit all that. We divorced two kids and three years later. I've been trying to recover myself ever since. I'm 44 years old now and am remarried to a man who is making tremendous sacrifices for me to go to school. I think even he knows, somewhere in my subconscious mind I do need this degree in order to be who I thought I was before I so carelessly allowed myself to be interrupted.
Ironically, had I finished school and gone to college in 1978, I probably would have been kicking and screaming about the program much as I am now and found it just as useless - artistically speaking. But, I got on this train and I'd like to ride it to the last station. I can see it now. It's right there on the horizon. I need to finish - I've never finished anything. So, I guess I'll stop griping about it.
Thank you for helping me to see this. In the meantime, I'm spending every spare moment on here, reading and experimenting with what's been said. Maybe, I'll learn to paint in spite of my "painting" classes!