Originally Posted by Sage

I think another important question would be where the crap does the rest of your money go? If you're working 40 hours a week you're making what... $1800-2000? That's at least $1000 a week left over after all the bills you just mentioned. Do you pay rent? Eat out a lot? Buy a bunch of useless shit you don't need? Like I said before, once you get your bills paid down you can TOTALLY afford to go to school. And yeah, the job you have now has good benifits and pay, but it's sucking your soul out one day at a time. Start thinking of what you can do to get a better, less soul-sucking job. I'd say that's the first step to going back to school- getting a job that won't leave you too drained to take night classes. Then take some night classes while you work on paying down your debt, and after that think about going part time or even full time if you can swing it finacially. Don't forget about student grants and loans- I know that I was getting $5000 a semester in student loans the last two years of college, and even tho I have to pay it back one day, that money helped me TREMENDOUSLY in that I didn't have to also work 40 hours a week on top of going to school.