ages

so it's been ages since i wrote. i feel ages older. But i'm not looking back -and perhaps, neither should you.

my predicament now is school and work. It's a combo.
Now, Gentle Reader, you may wonder, what is the problem? You enjoy your job, do you not? You're not in school are you? Right on both counts you most attentive reader.

Sooo without divulging too much information, let's just say that i don't have letters after my name and so i can never be the boss. Proposals won't list me as running the show without a license and "IIDA" on my business cards -though i'm perfectly capable of doing so -and have done in the past.

This, shall we say, perturbs me. To be presented as a CAD monkey, the lowest of the low. To be brought down to the same level as the newbie after 7 years of experience. All this, kind reader, sort of piles up on a gal.

And now you may be asking, why don't you just go out and fetch some letters of your own? To that i say, if only it were that easy. Despite already having 4 years of a 5.5 years master degree, i cannot find a single university in the commonwealth of Virginia or the District of Columbia who are willing to let me finish this degree. One illustrious university who shall remain nameless has graciously decided to consider my FOUR YEARS OF MASTERS DEGREE WORK as a second undergraduate degree. They'll let me take their masters program, of course, in it's entirety, start to finish.

Huh.

Well that's a screamin' good deal and not at all a smack across my academic face. What's worse is if i had another 20K$ hanging about i might consider taking the tossers up on it. I'd throw aside another 2.5 years of my already dominated-by-entirely-too-much-schooling life and finish the fucker.

But i don't have 20K$. I'm still paying off the first four years of masters work.

And so i'm screwed. The only letters i can add will be LEED-AP. Hoopie do. Do any of you (soon to be) faithful readers fail to see the problem inherent in the system? If you have a solution to this most perplexing conundrum i would love to read it.

cheers,
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