One of my agents tendered her resignation last week. She's serving 30-day notice so she still has 3 more weeks with us. She's been helping me with coaching duties. I'm lucky to have a writer like her who can coach others on writing style and stuff like that. This month, she also finally had consistent reliable performance. I do not look forward to seeing her leave.
But I understand and fully support her reason. She's been accepted to take up her Masters in English Lit at Cardiff University at Wales. That's a chance of a lifetime. If I had her opportunity, I would go too.
I asked her how she was going to pay for it, does it come with a scholarship? No, she will have to take a student loan, and there also discounts for foreign/international students. She mentioned that there are also student loans available for interested parties who have work experience already, it seems that there are different terms for that. In jest, I said that maybe I should give it a try too. That's why she mentioned maybe I could apply for a student loan myself.
Some years ago, when Friendster was a new thing, this was about 4 or 5 years ago already, I was going through some minor crisis. I was envious of batchmates (from gradeschool, highschool, and college) who have gone on to earn their MAs or are in law or medical school. I told myself, shit I can do that if they can! Really, part of me was feeling really small because I was the one who was supposed to be doing that. No one held me back, in truth, nothing held me back. It did not last long, there was no major depression. Okay, I may have cried to my boyfriend once and he was so encouraging and all. But after that, it was over as quickly as it came. If I wanted to go back to school - I could. If I wanted to be a lawyer - I probably could. But I realized that I didn't want to. Deep down in my heart, I didn't want to be doing any of that. Oh, and I still didn't look forward to so much studying.
Still, with S going away to Wales in September, I couldn't help but think about those things again. I'm thinking about finally settling things at UP so I could get my diploma. Then I can freely think about filing for a student loan, or applying for scholarships in schools anywhere in the world.
0 thoUght(s).
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