Eight alternatives. I did go eventually, but it was to community college first, after a gap year.
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Eight alternatives. I did go eventually, but it was to community college first, after a gap year.
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Once it became clear I wasn’t going to be drafted for a tour of the Jolly Green Jungle (I was just the right age to catch a high number in the very first Nixon draft lottery drawing), I sighed up at Northern Virginia College College and wrote my first published novel while there. When my first wife got pregnant I quit and went to work, usually as some kind of mechanic. I made a second attempt a few years later at (UNH, where I also worked as a janitor to get free tuition), but quit when I got a shipyard mechanic job. In the end, buying a VIC-20 and teaching myself the elements of programming is what gave me my career as a software architect, making ten times as much money. NVCC was mainly a source of fmale companionship (including wife #1). UNH was a waste of time. My self-taught hobbies (programming and writing) were all that mattered in the end.
Actually, my third hobby (lying face down on whatever women would agree to it) turned out to be a net negative, as that’s where the money from programming and writing went…
“Teach English in a foreign country.”
I have a niece who teaches English in China – but she does so via the internet. She has kept up this career while living in New Hampshire, Tennessee, and visiting with us in Virginia. It’s a job with full benefits, as well. Really cool.
I, myself, took a gap year (back in the 1970s). Still, I was able to get a BSME and MSME. I have done pretty well.