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[lilmustardseed]

We have been talking alot lately around our house about what direction the next year will take us. There are several projects on the horizon for us to initiate. All of these would enable me to engage full time in their marketing and production

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[posteverything]

You gotta let Sufjan Stevens inside your heart and cast your inhibitions to the wind..listening to his stuff almost forces me to be creative.

The way I've always seen it, if you don't feel, right down to the marrow in your bones, what it is you want to do with yourself in life then you don't have any business getting thousands of dollars in debt taking classes you don't feel passionately about, because honestly..an intelligent but passionate person with just a high school degree can make a name for themselves in the world more easily than an uninspired college gratuate. And as far as status is concerned, "you can't take it with you."

[lilmustardseed]

It's not so much a matter of status.
As a whole, I think women need to push themselves to learn more. We have this mental roadblock alot of the time that says... whooop whooop whoop... you're married now, or have a kid now, or have someone to watch after you, why on earth do you need more education? You'll never need it. You haven't needed anything you've gotten so far?!

But at the same time, im not the kind of person to stop learning, but i have a hard time because i think most of what you learn in college is crap.
I want to have my own bakery, restraunt, and glass blowing shop. heh. Can I go to school for those things and still balance a home life?

Who knows.
But I know I'll try.

[posteverything]

Take a walk down Main Street and it's readily apparent that a lot of people need to push themselves to learn more, woman or not. I'm really not trying to be elitist, but it's like my 17-yo new stepbrother who honestly thinks that Jesus was crucified sometime in the 1800s. How a person can walk this earth not knowing a damn thing about it is almost beyond my comprehension.

Although I do understand where you're coming from.

But, it isn't as though you, or any other woman, needs to go to college in order to learn. I'm not sure what Mankato has or hasn't, but there's lots of ways to expand your knowledge through informal or even formal institutions without having to get tied up in some sort of financial situation. Did you ever hear about Communiversity in Kansas City, by any chance?

[lilmustardseed]

Well Mankato has MSU... we are a college town. (have i mentioned that i am in no way shape or form excited for the college kids to be back in 2 weeks :( )

I think thats what gets me thinking about it. Because it is so at my finger tips. But to go to Culinary School, I would have to travel to the cities. Which, although not horrible, not in my desire to do unless i live there.

Church beliefs tell me to push myself to get as much formal education as I can. But I also know that is in place because so many women pop out 8 kids, and that ends up ruling their world. It helps keep them more balanced. I totally get that.

It just keeps me thinking....
Its not that I wouldn't be adverse to formal training in anything.. its just that I have never thought of myself being just one thing. I want to do it all ya know... but i dont want to go to school for 10 years to have a degree in any of it.

And then i feel like a 18 yr old, because these are all the thoughts that you are supposed to have then, and not now at 25.

[girliegirlie711]

The things that are on the horizon for us will require alot of dedication, initiative, and self motivation. Scary huh. But I know that doors wouldn't be opened if I wouldn't have been given the ability to go through them. I just have to decide if it's going to be in a wheelchair or walking with large strides.

Thanks.

[lilmustardseed]

:)

[ctrringstrue]

why hello mrs. sarah rae :)

if you were to go back to school, what would you want to major in instead of religion/photography/theology??

[lilmustardseed]

I would like to start by getting my baking certifications, and then continue in culinary arts and maybe a marketing degree. i think it would be fun to be my husbands manager... then i could boss him around for real :)

[ctrringstrue]

hehehehe
that's interesting! :)