I've been thinking about me and school. I was in school not to long ago and think I did relatively well both academically and psychologically. It kept my mind occupied and it wasn't able to think about the bad stuff as often because it was busy thinking about school.

I have been thinking for about 15 years about opening my own business and think that if I had a business degree either an AA or a BA that lenders would be more apt to lend me money to open my business. Opening my own business would mean that I would have more money and I could set my own hours and I could work when I wanted to because of the type of business I would open. The type of business I want to open would be doing children't birthday parties. I live in a very affluent part of the country...you wouldn't believe it since I live in Arkansas but I live in the home base for Walmart, Tyson, JB Hunt and a few other big companies. So therefore we have a lot of rich people with spoiled little kids LOL. When I worked at BK in Nebraska the idea came to me to do this because of so many people having their kids birthday parties at BK so they wouldn't have plan the party we did it for them. I would meet with the family and we would sit down and plan the party..I would buy the supplies, the goody bags, the cake, plan the games etc and clean up afterward. I could even hire people to help me. But I know nothing about starting up a business and think that if I had some business knowledge that came with going to college that it would help.

So here I am. I have talked with a couple of schools. One totally turned me off when the second he found out I was going to talk it over with my dad aka my financial person because I want to do this hopefully without having to have a student loan. I have heard of so many students graduating from college with a student loan and then not being able to pay it back and then defaulting on it ruining their credit as soon as they graduate. I already have bad credit due a bankruptcy and when I graduate the bankruptcy would be off my record and I would be able to start repairing my credit and I would hate to start it by ruining it right away by defaulting on a student loan. So if I can do it by a Pell Grant and scholarships then I will do it but if I can't then I guess its just not meant to be.

So here is my question. Do any of you know of any places I can look online for scholarships for people on disability that have physical as well as mental disablitities looking to go back to school to better themselves to get off disability? I can't go to AR Rehab as they paid for me to go to Vo Tech and they don't pay twice.

Jbug