To Not Limit: Part II

Here We Go Again

Oh, contemplation.  How you turn my insides inside out, and my brain into a pile of goo by the time you're done with me. No, truthfully, I do it to myself.  Willingly.  Sometimes with good results, but most often with visions of mind-numbingly long strains of work that, seemingly, will never get accomplished.

So what the heck am I talking about?

I'm contemplating going back to school.  It's not that I wasn't going to go back to school. I was. It's just that today decided to pop a different consideration into my head: Go for something you haven't been anticipating.

Great.  That wasn't the tentative plan.

Logistically Speaking

The plan was to continue on for a bachelor's in communications after I graduate in May with the associate's (and yes, I am still completely on track with that).  But what has my brain done with that?  Informed me that the institution I was planning on attending is more than I can afford.  That, and the degree I'll end up with is, well, a bit too theoretical for my liking.

It's not that I don't like theory.  I do enjoy it.  However, that's all it is: theory.  You can't get a job as a theorist.  I've heard too many stories of acquaintances getting communications degrees and promptly beginning their careers at WalMart.  I shudder.  Profusely.

So what's the plan?  Web design. It's always intrigued me.  I've always wanted to do a little more design-wise with this oh-so-humble blog (and the other one, of course).  Granted, there will be much more I'll be able to do when it's all said and done; this blog is just one small example.  

When I first transferred to my current institution of higher learning, it was as a web design major.

Getting Past the Unknown

I'll admit: There's something incredibly scary about pursuing this major. Reason being I don't know squat about web design.  Yeah, I can manipulate code; but only very minutely.

Although...

Either way I go with further education, I would still have at least two more years of school. Two years spent either learning more theory, or learning how to design a web page.

So, I guess for now I'm leaving it at "We'll see."

Oh, yes.  We'll see.