Home Depot, The Gym, Getting Set & Essex County

Researching academic programs feels joyous one moment, and like a perverse, sadistic kind of sentencing the next. Though I don't lend so much credence to the imagery that flashes in my mind, the last two are a tad disconcerting. In one, I'm in some furniture-less New Jersey suburban home I presumably own - weeping with a gun in my mouth. The open laptop filled with work for my online degree is the only light glowing in the otherwise empty space. In the next I'm at a joyous graduation from university, I turn to my mother and nearly scream: "Are you happy now?!"; the last words before going to live carefree under a bridge. 

Some of the degrees look so exciting, though they same kind of excitement I&I gets from a ripe avocado. Rutgers has an online degree (BA)  for Business Administration which my new job at Home Depot would definitely pay for in part. Score. There also is a Masters Degree offered online with a concentration of either: Public and Nonprofit Performance Management or Nonprofit Management; both of which I find agreeable and relevant. 

I'm working backwards on this project, or at least a little bit askew, but I'm as excited as I could have ever hoped for. The job pays for school, life and a car. The car allows promotions and volunteering. The heightened 'quality of life' allows me to leave it all behind and pursue my mission - unabashed & most importantly, absolved. 

Rutgers is (NOT) the top choice for the moment, this moment being nearly 30 minuets in. NYU has a B.S. (couldn't help but laugh) in Leadership and Management with a concentration in International Business and Global Management - also good for the aforementioned criteria. Not so sure you can get the NYU degree done completely online, will have to do more research.

William Patterson has a online Bachelors for Liberal Arts, I like the way it looks. They specifically state: "This program can also meet the needs of transfer students with a completed AA/AS/AFA degree from a regionally accredited college or university." The concentration options for the degree seem pretty sweet also...I just found out those are called minors. Spanish, Sociology, Political Science, Religious Studies - at least my focus could also fall on something cool.

Fairleigh Dickinson has a online Bachelors and is also on a list for most affordable online college degrees but still would cost 18 Grand. Sheesh!

I was thinking about combined 5 year degrees as Seton Hall had one intriguing program for their combined 5-Year B.S./M.A. in Diplomacy and International Relations.  All of their online offerings are Graduate though.

Thomas Edison University has a extensive Bachelors and Masters online degree catalog - Criminal Justice jumped out at me, but only cause I like schooling cops. I think acceptance to either of these schools would work a little better + I wouldn't have to stress about tuition as much. (Edison wins with tuition coming in at $7,519 )

With Home Depot offering $1500 PT/ $3000 FT & $5000 Salaried tuition reimbursement

Thanks Lord! I'm grateful...for everything.

-Pie

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Popcorn and Chris HAyes

I spoke recently with a family member about the illusion of control. 

Even when considering getting a submission delivered for work on deadline - the illusion can be said to be strongest then. There once was a man who dropped dead at his keyboard.

Something impossible to manage or control. That’s a kicker!

Some people are so stressed out... "likely cause they don’t know what stress is." I remember one of the OG's telling me. Ohio is my best guess... maybe Florida. 

Mind has expensive tastes when it comes to the intoxication of anxiety.

I &I find for mind that most is watered down. Mind chooses top shelf and forces I&I to foot the bill. Person plays the price for Johnny Walker Green when it’s really Corn Cob.

Bullets are stressful. Poverty is stressful. Abuse is stressful. I’ve heard that if your not driven to drugs and alcohol then your not so stressed; this is also a clever operation of Mind;  Mind says. 

I hear that larger and larger numbers of Americans ‘suffer’ from Anxiety. 1 does not suffer anxiety, only Mind. Only the person suffers, Self is impervious.

When confronted with the never ending undulations of personality - the mind is like a surfer determined to catch the right wave, never getting out of the water.

I&I hear people say all the time that Prayer works- As if Prayer were an inner city ATM in a Bodega.

LOL