sammij said:

No sense of humor I see Honestly, I could become a street worker and my mother would not interfere

Is your mom a natural born Canadian cuz this behavior is very UN CANADIAN!

graphic design used to be the second most expensive course you could do
(first was gold and silversmithing )

if they are teaching you CS4 or whatever, you'd need a macbook pro, right?

we used to have to make everything by hand back in the olden days to mimic a finished printed piece. Custom letraset anyone? Screenprinting, bromide paper and chemicals

when I get home, no wait. I never actually leave!

when everyone ELSE gets home they should most definitely NOT talk for at least an hour, especially not to me

ZombieKitten said:

it is CS4 and there's a class where we don't use macs at all, just do it by hand, so hopefully there'll be a nice balance of the manual vs the digital


i just hope i get a chance to enjoy it

Sammi, in a past life we were conjoined twins

sammij said:

yes it's an awesome profession

thekidsgirl said:

i'm having one of those nights now... i just want to give up, and give my mom all her money back... i don't know if this sort of treatment is worth a diploma?

sammij said:

Tough it out girlfriend! It will be worth it later
Nothing worthwhile comes easy

thekidsgirl said:

i know...it's true
but when not even your parents are behind you (or they are and they make it clear they'd rather have no part in it)... that makes it hard to go on...

i feel it's leftover resentment from not pursuing nursing, or a degree in the medical field..

oh god, i feel you.

my dad has been unemployed for the better part of a year, and constantly takes out his frustration over it on me, in increasingly aggressive ways. my mother's doing nothing to dissuade him from doing it.

ZombieKitten said:

y'know, under all the drepression i've been suffering, and the added stress of everything else on top of that, the verbal whoopings from the madre, etc....

i'm really fucking excited to haul some fucking ass in this program, because i know i can do it...

i'm just waiting to really immerse myself in some late night type of homework, the ones i stay on campus until close for

i said it before and i'll say it again - it's the worst thing to go to school and live at home... and having said it while not experiencing it, i can confirm it now after living it.

i think i just have to work extra hard at watching my health and not let it take a beating - i tend to not eat when i'm this upset

I'll get the venting over with first:

Ok, so today was the first day back to school.
As many of you know I have just graduated from university. After an entire summer with no luck of employment (anywhere) I was pushed back into school. So now I'm going to college for creative graphic design.

My mom had a huge hand in it all - I felt a lot of pressure from her to go back to school for something unrelated to my degree (i.e. Nursing.) regardless of how well I did in courses that would be required for that program. Anyway, after humouring her and going to an information session, I was told, by numerous administrative peoples on campus that I clearly was not cut out for any medical field - which confirmed what I had been arguing all this time.

So for the entire summer, I've been walking on eggshells while living back home with the parentals. And all that school stuff had a lot to do with it.

So anyway, I'm in school, still crossing my fingers that I'll get the student loan - otherwise, I'll have to drop out because my parents really don't have the money to fund my schooling. Strange how it was my mom's idea in the first place - and I know she means well, but when I try to explain to her how the student loan and postsecondary school systems work, she writes me off like I don't know WTF I'm talking about, regardless of having 4 years experience with it already or not. So I just do what she says (either that or have her make life extremely difficult for me at home)



So it's the first day. So far so good. She's mad at me ( ) because my professors are telling me that the mac I'm working on now is not up to par with the software and file type that I'll be using (i need a new OS, more hard drive and waaaaay bigger ram. i'm working on 512M... so yeah, obviously.). So she's not in a great mood. At all. And of course, I'm to blame.














This is what I want to know, are any of you like me - in the sense that when you get home from a long day, you need at least an hour of just you time? No talking to you, no questions, just, peace?
I came in and was just looking for a bite to eat, and I get charged at. I just answer with "I'm tired" and she loses it, replying "YOU'RE tired? Well I'm EXHAUSTED." As if I was trying to compete to see who's having a rougher go.

I don't really know how else to respond than with silence. So I STFU'd, and went straight up to my room. Which is what I was trying to do in the first place.

I'm just so... frustrated.

Right now I don't know if I could be a big help in advice to you seeing how this is my first time dealing with a child whose just entered high school I get frustrated a lot because my boys have no idea about the things I go through to keep things smooth everyday. I'm behind in bills, I've been wearing the same pair of gym shoes for 2 years, and yet I manage to work hard to keep the lights on and still pay for books and fees for private high school AND grammar school. I want them to enjoy their youth and play their wiis and ps3s and skate board and look in the fridge and find food without thinking about what will they eat the next day. I was telling my man how I was talking on the phone to my sister about being poor and my youngest heard me. He said "we're poor?!!" I just told that no we're not poor. That being said every body needs space. I believe your mother loves you and means well.I think you should do what you've already done-Let her talk, even if its getting on your nerves and go to your room when she's done. Eventually you will finally be able to move out and be on your own until then just let it fly over your head

Thanks all.

I have been seeing it from my parent's perspective for sometime now, I owe some attention to myself right now.
And thank you for the advice, regardless.