How do you explain to potential employers?

[High_Order1]

Why do you need flexibility? You should be able to complete your education on your own time with online courses and the occasional brick and mortar evening class.

I work full-time, and I don't ask for flexibility. As long as I can get the occasional day off for doctors, dentists, and DSST, I'm good.

Most jobs I am applying for are part time. They do not like to give off days. They do not like to give a Friday or a Monday off.

Huh? I'm confused.
First off, asking for flexibility before you've even been hired is pretty lame- I don't mean to be offensive, but the job is the job. If it's not a fit, you shouldn't accept it. Just my 2 cents on that part.

The question: Where are you going? Who is asking this, when and why? This is TMI. If you're not enrolled anywhere, don't put anything down on your application. If you are enrolled, then list your school. Since you technically are going nowhere, leave the school part blank until you're enrolled as a degree seeking student (because they could ask for an enrollment verification- like when you get a good student discount on insurance)

There is no air of legitimacy, what a strange phrase. Listen, I am sure this sounds harsh, but just enroll somewhere and call it done. You shouldn't even be bringing this up at a job interview. It's completely irrelevant.

EDIT to add- all the sharing and talking and obsessing can happen here, this is a safe place for

that. We are your cheerleaders, not your employer. :hurray: <-- see, I'm cheering for you

No, it's not lame. As a person who has done hiring in the past, I would like very much to know that a person has outside interests that may conflict with the position they are applying for. Because this is a part time job, I'll also need to work somewhere else. This is how it is.

My current part time job cuts the heart out of every M-F, but I only get 29 hours. They won't let me off to go take a test somewhere. I'm going next week to requalify on equipment that I use at my job, and they wouldn't let me off for it.

I have no interest in enrolling anywhere at this point. I want to do this as inexpensively as possible, so I intend to knock out as much as I can first. Then, I'll send to the Big Three and work from there.

Being a college student isn't irrelevant in my work field. They allow others to do some of their homework AT my current job. I feel like I am sort of a college student, and I want to leverage that. If they can't accept that I need time to complete coursework and / or take tests, then we need to get that settled in front, right?

But I do agree on the verification issue, which is why I posted.