Moana of Motunui
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- Jul 24, 2017
My friend is making a huge mistake. I think. Maybe I'm just not supportive. What do you thin&?
My friend left her job for a higher paying job about a year ago. This May, she was let go from
Her new job. She now doesn't think her career choice is right and wants to start a new career in marine biology.
The problem is: we're 25 and college graduates in something completely opposite of marine biology. So she wants to move to Florida and do her undergrad at a university with marine biology.
She has a restaurant job that doesn't pay well. I keep telling her to go back to her original job but she's refusing (her original job would take her back easily). She keeps saying she's having trouble saving money and that it's not fair that her friends are doing things and going places when she can't. Basically she keeps complaining about her decision.
Edit to add: She could get her old job back for the time being until the move. Her dental, eye, and health insurance would be covered so she wouldn't have to pay OOP. I'm trying to help her get/save as much money as she can before she moves because once she moves, she's only living on savings for a few months until she gets a job. Going back to her old job isn't forever. It's would be for about 10 months.
In addition, she isn't taking anyone's advice. She's moving herself from PA to FL to go to college again and spending another $Xk a year for a degree she will hate. She could find a local college but she didn't take that advice.
I want to tell her that she's making a big mistake. About a month after college graduation I started a job, and a year later I hated it. I had the same idea to go to school for marine biology. I left my job, started school, and realized I made a huge mistake. I was luckily enough that I kept in touch with a few college professors and now work for one of them. I know what she's going through and it's awful when your career choice hurts you. But I'm sure she will find the right job in her degree field. If I tell her any of this she will take offense to it.
(The only positive thing I can see is that when she does move to FL, it's free room when I visit her and go to disney next October lol )
My friend left her job for a higher paying job about a year ago. This May, she was let go from
Her new job. She now doesn't think her career choice is right and wants to start a new career in marine biology.
The problem is: we're 25 and college graduates in something completely opposite of marine biology. So she wants to move to Florida and do her undergrad at a university with marine biology.
She has a restaurant job that doesn't pay well. I keep telling her to go back to her original job but she's refusing (her original job would take her back easily). She keeps saying she's having trouble saving money and that it's not fair that her friends are doing things and going places when she can't. Basically she keeps complaining about her decision.
Edit to add: She could get her old job back for the time being until the move. Her dental, eye, and health insurance would be covered so she wouldn't have to pay OOP. I'm trying to help her get/save as much money as she can before she moves because once she moves, she's only living on savings for a few months until she gets a job. Going back to her old job isn't forever. It's would be for about 10 months.
In addition, she isn't taking anyone's advice. She's moving herself from PA to FL to go to college again and spending another $Xk a year for a degree she will hate. She could find a local college but she didn't take that advice.
I want to tell her that she's making a big mistake. About a month after college graduation I started a job, and a year later I hated it. I had the same idea to go to school for marine biology. I left my job, started school, and realized I made a huge mistake. I was luckily enough that I kept in touch with a few college professors and now work for one of them. I know what she's going through and it's awful when your career choice hurts you. But I'm sure she will find the right job in her degree field. If I tell her any of this she will take offense to it.
(The only positive thing I can see is that when she does move to FL, it's free room when I visit her and go to disney next October lol )
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