{"id":88,"date":"2006-12-08T10:45:14","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T17:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2007-02-07T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T19:25:05","slug":"out-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/out-of-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After half a semester at the U of A, Derek has decided he needs a break from school, so he has moved back home.  He&#8217;s not sure if he will take any classes anywhere in the spring, but is looking out to next fall.  In the mean time, he is (slowly!) looking for a job.<\/p>\n<p>After a couple of weeks in Tucson, he commented to me, &#8220;I was sitting in class the other day and the thought hit me:  This is going to be my life for the next 4 to 8 years.&#8221;  He&#8217;s burned out on school and wants to do something else for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t be too disapproving.  I took off a couple of years after high school, and then took classes part time for the next 6 years, before going back full time.  It took me 10 years to finally get my BS.  I hope it doesn&#8217;t take him that long, but I know for me the travel and real-world experience gave me a greater appreciation for the benefits of an education, and when I finally did go back to school I did so with enthusiasm and diligence.<\/p>\n<p>As parents,  we have our hopes and dreams for him, but he has to live out his own life.  We will support him whatever path he takes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After half a semester at the U of A, Derek has decided he needs a break from school, so he has moved back home. He&#8217;s not sure if he will take any classes anywhere in the spring, but is looking out to next fall. In the mean time, he is (slowly!) looking for a job. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}