At 28 you're probably having so much responsibilities just to support yourself (and often your family) that you can't just "do courses" unless you have a sponsor. Still better to do shit then NEET.
I offset this by having no family, I could quit my job and replace it with a part time one (or two) to go back through school. Most of the people I knew were not afforded this luxury. Also none of this happened in the US.
Im speaking from my Polish experience, where higher education is free. You still need to eat and have roof over your head, even if you don’t have a family. Rent for a studio apartment costs 2/3 of a median full-time salary here and the rest is barely covering groceries, so unless you have external funding it’s impossible to quit or reduce the hours to part-time. Considering cost of living you’d need to be in the top 5% earners to be able to afford a very frugal life after reducing your hours.
The secret: one doesn’t quit or reduce hours. I’m going to school full time, working full time, and raising a family.
It is exhausting but it can be done
How? Full time job with commute is 10 hours, school is another 8 hours a day. You’re left with 6 hours to raise family, sleep, eat, shower. I call that bullshit, unless by full time school you mean weekend courses, which definitely aren’t full time school. Back when I was in uni I had 42 hours of lessons a week in my curriculum, peppered between 8AM and 8PM and I had to quit to support myself, let alone the whole family.
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u/smk666 17d ago
At 28 you're probably having so much responsibilities just to support yourself (and often your family) that you can't just "do courses" unless you have a sponsor. Still better to do shit then NEET.