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Originally Posted by turquoisesea
you said grad school - does this mean you have an undergrad degree? If so congratz on that! What caused you not to go back to grad school, and if that's what you want what's stopping you from getting there again?
Its really hard to not compare yourself to a sibling but I think you have to let that go - I have to work on that too with my sister =)
I agree with Sophia btw, a college degree does not define your success or lack thereof.
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I am in grad school currently. The problem is that I'm failing. My life is falling apart. My professors think I'm going to fail. I'm losing my T because I can't afford it and it isn't covered by my school's health insurance. I spent three years working to get the vita I needed to get into grad school in the first place.
While in most families a college degree does not define success, in my family it does. I know how my parents treated my brother when he failed out of grad school. I already have a strained enough relationship with them I don't need their condemnation.
My dad was the first one in his family to go to college and then go and get a JD. Anything less is considered failure. It took me forever to get my dad to understand that needing to get more experience in my field didn't mean that I wasn't going on to grad school.
So yes, for my family success does have a lot to do with getting a degree.