moving help: At the end of January I’m going to be moving back in with my parents. - Help.com

I thought about shipping him, but it is really expensive. Plus, the closest airport is a three hour drive, so he’d still have to deal with an extended trip in the car.

Oh, no worries pink sparkle. I thought about sending him on a plane myself, but between the cost and the distance I would have to travel to get him/logistics of picking up an animal 900 miles away (nobody from home would be able to pick him up at the airport as my parents will be helping me move) are just too hard. I never knew there was such a high chance of him getting lost though.

ot - Then again, I’ve never lost any luggage when flying - just had it damaged by jerks. On a long weekend trip to Chicago, someone in baggage cut a gold-plated label off of a leather strip on my (designer) luggage. Sucks because it was a graduation gift and I loved it, 10 years later every piece has been damaged or stolen somehow. /ot

Yeah, I think the living with the parents part is going to be toughest of all. I no longer have my old bedroom there, my dad took it over. The last time I stayed there, I had i>his /i> old bedroom…but when I left my older brother took that over. He is 34 and still lives there, doesn’t work..is kind of a leech.

So, I’m going to have to live in the basement now, where my brother has lived since 1992. There’s an unfinished bedroom/unfinished bathroom area and the den which has been converted to a sort of bedroom. I plan on spending the spring fixing up the area to make it nicer for me, finishing the bathroom so I’ll have one down there, and spending most of my time down there. So it will be a lot more separate from the rest of the family than if I had a bedroom upstairs. I’m hoping I can make it almost like a studio apartment down there, and finally get the downstairs doorway opened back up so I can come and go easier. Years ago it had to be blocked off because of my brother; he was a drug dealer and had people coming in as they please through the basement door - it led to a lot of stuff being stolen. My brother doesn’t really have any sense about him, and doesn’t care how he uses his family or other people around him.

Supposidly he’s going to move and get a place in the DC area with his long distance girlfriend, who is pregnant. He already has a 15 year old son, but isn’t with the mother anymore. It’s a big old mess. I mention all of this I guess because that’s another thing I have to deal with when I’m there - my brother and his mess. My mom always tries to drag me into it, and I have tried to stay apart from it. He’s a main reason why I left so soon after I graduated. So, yeah…it’s definitely not ideal for me to be there, but it’s fiscally responsible. Like JellyBelly said, it’s mainly because of the economy that I’m doing it right now. I’ve wanted to go back to school ever since I left, but there’s never been time with my career. Now that my career in low-level IT isn’t worth as much as it had been before I’m not sure I can survive without getting a degree.

I’m not entirely decided on what I’m going to go to school for. I’m stuck between a few different things. I majored in English Literature when I was in school last, but can’t really do much with a BA in English Lit apart from teaching, and I know I wouldn’t be happy doing that unless it was at a university level…even then I don’t think it would be for me. I had initially went to school pre-med, wanting to follow up with medical school. I was even accepted into a special program to help West Virginian residents get into Medical School. There are 20 people accepted into the program each year in their senior year of high school; and you spend three summers at WVU working towards the program. Three people from the program are guaranteed a spot in a WV medical school - which is a big deal. The downside of this is that I suck at math. And math is pretty important in medicine. It really makes me sad, but I don’t think medicine is going to be for me.

The easy thing for me to do would be a major in Information Technology since computer systems and the like come easily to me and I’ve worked in IT for 8 years. But I’ve never gotten very far because I just don’t have the experience or the background. Finally, I am heavily thinking about trying to go to law school after finishing my undergraduate degree. It’s something I’ve always thought about since I dropped out of the med route, and I think I would really enjoy law if I went that route.

The older I get the harder it is for me to decide on a path in school. I want this time around to count. I’m just a few credits shy of being a junior when I re-enroll. I’m fast approaching 30 years old and know how hard it is to get a good job these days, and it’s only going to get harder with this economy. So I really want to do the school thing right, which makes me so afraid I’m going to make a bad choice when it comes to a major. I already have a good bit of student loan debt, and will be taking on a lot more (the school I am going to next is fairly expensive for a public school. Plus, it’s out of state for me - but it’s the only university nearby where I could live at home and go to school. My parents are in a bordering county and I’ll get a small discount as opposed to out of state students, but it will still run me about 10,000 a year for tuition alone. My current student loan debt is not much more than that, and it was for three years of school. So I’m very, very aware at the cost of all of this. Being an adult stinks sometimes.)