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Sometimes I don’t know if I’m depressed or okay with the fact that I still have no idea what I want to do with my life, aside from make myself and those around me happy and have them feel loved/taken care of. 

I just spent a while browsing job descriptions on O*NET and it all kind of blurred after a while. I had to resist the urge to scroll down to the bottom of each one and just see how money people typically make in a year in that occupation. I don’t need a lot of money. It shouldn’t be the main reason I pursue a particular career. Do some older people regret taking jobs just to pay the bills and try to do whatever they want outside of work? Is it because we spend so much time at our jobs that if we are unhappy/unfulfilled there, it seeps into the rest of our lives? The perfect job is always described as doing what you love and getting paid to do it. Do people pay their spouses or parents of their children for doing what they do? Is that a trophy wife/husband/mother/father? I kind of just want to spend my whole life making it interesting. What job is that? I’m just going to have to try and get my own reality show, I guess. The standards for celebrity are getting lower and lower.

SO MANY QUESTIONS. 

It’s probably from staring at screens for 75% of my daily life, but it may also be due to several big life changes that are on the horizon. What is happening in my life? 

• Most recently, Ian and I have made the decision to move in together. Meaning, he is in the process of finding a job up in Richmond and I am in the process of trying to mature financially. It’s hard for me to get a credit card right now and that is important if I want to be approved for pretty much anything regarding living on my own. But thankfully, my sister has elected to let us all live in our current apartment until April, then we will part ways. Somehow. Cash Rules Everything Around Me.
• I am considering obtaining a post-baccalaureate graduate certificate in Autism Spectrum Disorders, which is only 12 credits. I am taking one class this fall, and then I have to be accepted into the grad program if I want to take the second one in spring. After that, I will hopefully take the next two in summer 2012 and fall 2012. 
  -HOWever, I have no idea how to go about pursuing this. I’m going to see my good-for-nothing psychology advisors to see if they can give me any kind of advice on financial aid. Post-bacc grad certificates are not master’s degrees so all of my research has been sort of futile. But I only decided on this yesterday, and I’m still not sure. I think I’m just trying to ween myself off of school after all these years.
  -I don’t know how paying back my undergrad will factor in if I’m taking three credits each semester… 

So if anyone would like to donate either money or very specific personal finance tips, feel free to get at me.