The conversation yesterday centered on the tick moving in the right direction as far as getting a full time, forty hour a week job. This is something that they have never had and my guess is that this is just a way to buy more time. After six months of "working", they still have no money, no car and college loans to pay off.
The college plan turned out just as I expected it would. Had we been paying the tuition I would have been even more upset than I am currently now. Having gone to school, which began as a great experience, we then proceeded to end our first year on academic probation. It seems that when you gone to college, the faculty expect you to read, turn in papers, pass exams, etc. I must have missed the college where you just go to have fun and hang out with friends. This part ends with a student loan of nearly three thousand dollars which is accumulating interest as I write this. But the good news is...we are moving in the right direction.
I guess I just expect more than movement. The funny thing about movement is that first, the right direction could be toward any point of the compass. For some the correct one would be backwards. That is not an option. Second, movement does not imply progress. One could move in a circle, call it the right direction and never get further than where they began from. So far all I have seen is this person walk around in circles, complain that they just can't get ahead and ask for more help.
A hand up is NOT a hand out. I do know that doing and paying for all of this is beyond the getting old stage and progressing into the throw my shit in a pile and leave stage.
October will soon be here, I won't be here and possibly next year I won't be here at all. I have a direction that I'm moving in and it is not the one where I take care of a tick the rest of my life.
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