For the past 15 years I've worked some form of customer service job and the past four years I have been the general manager at a pizza resturant and feel I am severely underpaid (wont discuss pay but lets just say it's less an hour than our biggest size pizza). By general manager I mean I helped get the resturant ready for opening day, run day to day operations (hiring, scheduling, inventory, etc.) Big picture ideas (specials to run, advertising, sponsorships, etc.) And everything and anything in between. I recently discovered a love of coding, currently learning java on MOOC, and know that's what I want to do for a living. If I went back to school I would ask to take on a lesser role at work (with a very minimal pay decrease) so I could afford to take a lesser role to focus on school. My biggest worry is the accumulation of school loans. I've been able to slowly work my way out of debt and I feel like I would be starting over. I know it's possible to continue to teach myself to code and eventually get my foot in the door but college is more of a certainty. Is the debt I will incur while attending college not worth it or should I take on the debt and further my education and start my career in 4+years?
Edit: thank you to everyone who took the time to give me advice. After hearing from all of you wonderful people and talking to a couple of really close friends, I have decided to go back to school. Two years community college then transfering is affordable and I live close to a good school that i know transfers easily. I wish I had all the gold in all the reddit land to give everyone who took the time to guide me, just know the day I get my diploma I will be thinking about everyone who helped get me there. Back to school, back to school, to prove to dad that I'm not a fool. (I'm old enough to remember when Adam Sandler was funny)
Submitted May 07, 2019 at 06:26PM by darth_anxiety http://bit.ly/2Ycdawm
