Feel like dropping out of everything

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G'day Aylissa.

I've seen you around of course, but I don't know much about you. Do you have kids?

I used to get some comfort from Robert Pursig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" I excpect its in most libraries.

I went back to uni at age 30 to get a better job. What I would have liked to have done at uni was continue into honours and a PhD, but it wouldn't have paid the bills. I sometimes think still that I would like a lecturing position at uni but (here) you need a PhD.

All I can say is the "grass isn't always greener". I always wanted to work in a Stockbroking firm, until I did

Here's an idea:
You are (I am guessing) paying 7.5% interest on a 25 year mortgage of 80% of your house's value, say $600,000. Mortgage payments approx $3300 pcm. You could lease the same house (assuming 3% rental yield) for $1600 pcm. Selling it and leasing it back you could unlock equity (20%) of $120,000. Invested in the stock market with dividend and capital returns of say 10%. If you invest the $1700 per month saving from your mortgage, after 20 years your investments would be worth very much more than the future value of your house.



However, owning your own house has emotions tied up in the decision. I myself am paying off a mortgage instead of leasing and investing.

I hope you find a way to deal with the stress.

We should meet up in the dino-aspie cafe.

I've already stopped working on school work completely for 4 months now, I wont pass the 11th grade for sure but I dont give a crap

Thanks everybody, I actually feel a little better. Still don't know what I'm going to do but I do feel a little less weight off my shoulders. I've neglected school for a little over a day now and my graduate advisor already considers me an immature failure.

Now Santa Claus, you really need to get back to school and get your high school diploma. School sucks, but there should be a way you can hang on till the end. I have a daughter who will graduating high school in June, and she has developed quite a list of coping skills to get her little butt to school. She wants to "walk the line" - so she's keeping her eye on what she wants, and it's a positive reward (which is what some of the other people were telling me to do). She has a datebook with the exact number of schooldays left, so she can tell me every morning on the way to school how many more days of this evil she has to put up with. She says being a senior is nice because none of the other kids pick on you any more, since you're the oldest. Anyway, you really need to get back in there and finish it up. Maybe you could try taking a class at a local junior college to be around more mature people.