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Will I ever successfully have a good job? This is what I keep asking myself.

I graduated from college, at age 29, this past December. It's a liberal arts degree with a psychology focus. Yay. I'm qualified to make $14/hr now.

I thought I would go on to a Nursing degree, but there are obstacles. First is that most require at least two more math courses. The stat course I took to graduate recently caused me at least one weekly meltdown. I have dyscalculia. Also, I'll have to attend full time classes for one year to be an LPN, or for two years to be an RN. My kids are young and both autistic, and I have no friends (big surprise) or family willing or able to help. That means the huge expense of education plus sticking my kids in daycare. I want to do this part-time, but it seems almost impossible.

I considered just continuing on for my Psych degree, which I can do mostly from home. Perfect, right? Except that I need more math. 10 credits total, and I only have 4. This means two more classes. Which might destroy me. I'm serious - it's a nightmare for me. Also, there's not much you can do with a Psych degree, unless you've got a Masters or PhD, which I'm not interested in pursuing.

This isn't even factoring in the financial bit of this, and to be honest, I don't know if I'm worth the investment risk. Maybe I ought to just go be a stripper?

I'm beginning to feel like everything is beyond me, like I'll never make it or succeed, like everything that everyone else can do is just too hard for me. I'm becoming depressed and wondering why the f**k I get out of bed in the morning. Is this my life? It seems so.

Not that I should be one to give advice on education...but can you get extra tutoring in math? If you really want to pursue nursing then it might be worth it.

Are you worth the investment risk? YES! Everyone deserves an opportunity to do what they want. If you don't let yourself do that you WILL regret it and have many unanswered "what if?" type questions. If you do it, sure, theres always that chance that you may fail, but theres also that chance that you will succeed.

You can achieve more than you think. Everyone has potential.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it or work around it.
-A quote by Micheal Jordan.

This might help:
Nursing Schools

I think the answer might be finding a major that doesn't require any more math than you have. My goodness, you do have your plate full.
Hah! How about starting your own business by running a daycare for autistic kids! Then you could claim all the holes in the walls as business deductions!

I have discalcula too.
Sometimes it seems like I go through life AVOIDING math.

I have artistic talent and got a degree with no math but what am I qualified to do?

I wonder about going back to school again.

I wonder if its all worth it. I see my own limitations and have to be realistic and see what I canm do around them and theres not much room left.

Good luck to you

I'm a bit confused. So you graduated from college, but you don't want to get a masters or a PhD. If you get a second bachelors degree, that would take about as long as a masters (2 years), right? So why don't you want to get a masters?

There are also post-bacc pre-med programs - one year's worth of courses designed to prepare college graduates of all majors for graduate programs in the sciences.

I did not get to do the major I wanted in college, and it screwed up my career plans. I looked into going back for a second bachelors, but the schools I looked at would not accept anyone who already had a bachelors degree.

So I went ahead and applied to grad school. Now I'm working on my masters online. It's pretty convenient. I could have finished this program in under two years if I went full-time. It's taking me 3 years because I'm going part-time. When I graduate, I can get a good job or go on to get a PhD or another masters. The degree I'm working on is not the one I would have chosen ideally, but I've learned that there are plenty of ways I can combine it with my interests. So I think it was a good decision.