Want to give up...

[BradF1979]

I'm fairly higher education ignorant, but years ago my employer offered paid tuition through TESC (TESU now). This was a reimbursement plan and I decided I'd take some courses as I had no higher education at all. It's now been almost 5 years and I have 18 credits. I've only been taking a single course at a time, sometimes taking lots of time off. No real excuses, but I've mostly felt that I haven't learned anything which I couldn't have learned through self-study (which is what I've done my whole life). Feeling like it's all a waste of time and company money. I enrolled as a BA in CS major so my classes have all been things I thought might be interesting. But 18 credits is a far cry from anywhere close to graduating and having a degree. At this point, I simply want to find a path to any degree so that the 'degree' checkmark at my employer can be checked and I can move higher than a supervisory role (I've been with this company 18 years). I've read through the forum and saw a recommendation to do a BA in Liberal Arts from TESU that had a spreadsheet plan with it. I'm wondering how any of the classes I've done fit (or don't fit into that plan)...


MAT-121 GS009 College Algebra A- 3 2016OCT

CIS-351 OL009 Software Engineering A 3 2015AUG

CIS-311 OL009 Database Management A- 3 2014SEP

COS-231 OL009 Assembly Language A 3 2013AUG

COS-241 OL010 Data Structures B+ 3 2013JAN

COS-116 OL010 C Programming A 3 2012JUL


I do not think I have enough discipline to study as much as possible for TECEPs without doing a guided study course. I think enrolling in Straighterline is probably my best bet at this point to try knockout the GA requirements then see where to go from there.

Does anyone have any thoughts or words of encouragement?

I work 50 or so hours a week and have 2 kids plus many other responsibilities so time is not as abundant as I would like.