Posts Tagged ‘school’

floundering, windows 7, programming school and stuff

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

I haven’t had a good week. A relapse and a reemergence of old symptoms. However, I won’t talk much about that.

I managed to upgrade my computer to Windows 7. It was nightmarish and HP told me they wouldn’t support it even though they have upgrade instructions on their website. It was the drivers that were giving me such issue. It took me a couple of days but I downloaded updated drivers and did a few other fixes so now the CPU is not at 90% and I’m connected to the Internet. Heh, hardware and drivers and all that aren’t my strength.

A friend of mine is going to school to become a programmer and it made me envious. Design isn’t my strength but I love working with code. Prior to upgrading to Windows 7 I tweaked a script and got single-sign on working for my IPB forum and Drupal install on a website of mine. I’d waited for months for the script that would do this to be released but I figured I could do it on my own since the developer stopped working on the project. So, maybe, just maybe, I should do the same as my friend. I guess like tons of other people I really don’t know what I want to do. I know I don’t want to be a pharmacy tech for the rest of my life. I know I love working with code. I know I want to learn more about programming.

My license still has not come in and my teacher is MIA. The money for the school was a gift but I still find it upsetting. I know I don’t want to be a pharmacy tech forever but I still want to work part time using my license for a while.

going back to school!

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

On April 11th I go back to school. Not university since I’m graduating in May (still nervous about the actual ceremony!). This is going to be a 15 week course that will supposedly land me a job. I really want to start working again but I know I’ll have to ease myself into it before going full out. So,  it’s going to be pharmacy tech, 15 weeks, then 120 hours of clinical. The only downside is that the school is an hour away and at 8:30am. Ugh. I plan on going to sleep ultra-early the day before and taking sleeping pills (full dose, not half strength) to ensure I don’t stay awake looking at the ceiling.

So, I’m relieved that I’m going to be doing something productive again. I tell myself it’s only 15 weeks, which isn’t bad. Clinicals can be arranged to be a lot closer to where I live so that’s not an issue. I’m nervous but I think this will be a good change. I know I dropped out of the workforce against my wishes (had to do with medical insurance, which I couldn’t not have, and my disability) but I really want to try to get back into it. If I fail the first time, I’ll try again, again, etc.

Wish me luck! :D