Why are you earning credit this way?

[dfrecore]

After doing college in fits and starts, I had 75cr, and was nowhere close to a degree.  I was a Silicon Valley girl, so no degree needed back in the 90's, which had my motivation down to about a 0, even with tuition reimbursement (I did use it to full advantage for expensive UL credits, thankfully).  But I had a pretty good life, so didn't think about it a lot.

THEN, I got married, and we moved to a less expensive area, and suddenly, everywhere I applied wanted a degree (Sacramento, and for some crazy reason, close-toed shoes, but I digress).  It was just a really big change, very conservative, and asking for a degree where none was needed.  I commuted back to the Bay Area/worked from home part-time, but it got to be a lot.  Then I got pregnant, and quit.

FF to a few years ago.  My kids were little, and my husband traveled a LOT for work, so even taking classes at the local CC was not in the cards.  But, my brain was starting to atrophy (ask any SAHM about this, they will agree).  I wanted to do SOMETHING towards my degree but wasn't sure what.  Surfing the web brought me here, and the rest is history.

I STILL don't have my degree, although I'm finishing Microeconomics and Stats through Study.com right now (and kicking myself for dropping Microecon the semester after I took Macro, and for not taking Stats the semester after I took Finite Math for the easy A).  And, I got an extension for the Capstone, am finishing my final paper as well, only need a 37% on it to pass the course, so that's a relief.  I will either graduate in March or June, but either way, I'm fine.  I still don't have a LOT of motivation to finish, but know that at some point, my luck would run out, and I'd miss a deadline or something, get kicked out of my catalog, have more stuff I'd have to do, and really want to bash myself in the head with a hammer 50 times for being so stupid, so...

Also, I enjoy posting, helping, doing all things forum more than I actually care about getting a degree!