My Journey from Dead End Job to Success

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I'm thinking about not starting WGU until October instead of trying for Sept. The first class of the MBA needs to be completed within 6 weeks and my Sept is almost completely booked. Doing almost 8 months straight of nothing but work and TESC left no family time. At night, especially the last couple of months, my daughter would dejected stand next to me while I typed a paper. And I promised an awesome summer between finishing TESC and before starting graduate school. And I always keep my word. So the awesome is extending into Sept a bit. We've whitewater rafted and are doing the shore this weekend. There's 3 more camping trips, Niagara Falls and the Ren Faire lined up.

The plan, always a plan, is to hit WGU hard and be done in a year. My hubby and daughter probably couldn't take it much past that - I'm blessed with a family that likes to have me around. But a year is doable as long as I pepper in some really good quality time here and there in between strong pushes forward. Taking a step back to a non management position as a way to enter a new industry has really helped work/life balance. After working 15 years for a company that believed it owned me mind, body and soul is really nice to be in a situation to have weekends and holidays off.