I have attended colleges, several to by truthful. From my earliest memories I have desired to be a veterinarian. But life sometimes gets in the way of our best laid out plans. I would eventually go to college, but never to become a veterinarian.
First college, two years out of high school, going through a divorce with a small child, I attended college for a year with the goal of becoming a CPA. The college was local, and small. The needs of working to support my child and myself was more important, or so I thought at the time, than going to college. I did not have the time to attend classes and work a job and be home to care for my young son.
It would be several years later, my second marriage and three more children before I would walk onto a college campus for classes. This time the goal was to become a school teacher. I truly enjoy teaching children and youth. I had been teaching horsemanship clinics to youth and riding lessons for three years. Before deciding to become a teacher, I had also worked in the schools as a special needs teacher assistant. I love teaching children, and still do. I enrolled in the two year college outside of town that had a special program to provide instruction for people wanting to become teachers due to the lack of teachers in our area. I was never allowed into the special program that would have paid for my tuition, but they could not deny me the classes. I decided to enroll in Regis University program of education, with online classes and the University accepting the credits I obtained from the other college program. At one point I was attending two physical campus for the small college and doing online classes from Regis University carrying a load of 18 to 21 credits per semester.
But once again changes in life got in the way of my continuing to learn, but not without me graduating with two Associates Degrees, one in Science and one in Fine Arts.
Later, I would attend another online University to get a degree to teach preschool and kindergarten in the state of New Mexico.
Life has taught me many lessons and how to do many things. In my life so far I have been a certified horse trainer and riding instructor, managed stores and fast food restaurants, raised and shown horses, been office manager for a trucking company with 125 drivers, drove a semi truck, a dump truck, and currently I am a sheep farmer learning to become a certified butcher.
I still love to teach children. I teach various and interesting subjects to my fifteen grandchildren. I train employees who come to work at the store where I work. Most of these new employees are the age of my oldest grandchildren.
Will I ever return to college to finish a degree I started? No, I am beyond the years of being able to use the degree and license to teach in schools. The expense of finishing the degree would never be repaid in the years I would be able to work.
Do I regret never finishing my college education? No, my children needed me more. I needed to be there, spend the time with them in their early years. Three of my four children have gone to college and earned their degrees and work in those fields. One child learned a trade, and is very good at what they do.
College is not for everyone. College is a stepping stone to reach a goal in life. But college is not the only pathway to a fulfilling and prosperous career. My greatest joy, and where I was in constant demand was when I was teaching horsemanship clinics to youth and to my children.
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