Working and going to school?

[Whattup]

Hello, all. I have been trying to work full time (which I have done for three years now) and go to school 1-2 classes at a time for years. It worked for me when I had two classes that basically had the same due dates and schedules, and they were not accelerated.

Now I work a Monday-Friday job, and I cannot get the school part going again for the life of me! I've tried for 2 1/2 years just to get past the first day of class without feeling overwhelmed by keeping track of all the due dates, and I just can't do it!

Is this a part of aspergers? Is it because of the multi tasking or some other ASD trait?

I've pushed my way through several dull classes before, but now I cannot manage to push through any of them.

I'm terrified of my job prospects without a degree, but I cannot manage to go to school at all right now. I also do admit, I am very bored with school right now. I'm not learning anything I want to know and I have to go at such a slow pace that an AA degree is years away. I know all that doesn't help.

But please share your story if you have gone through this, or if you overcame it, or have just been through something similar. Thank you.

 

[Kari Suttle]

Hello, all. I have been trying to work full time (which I have done for three years now) and go to school 1-2 classes at a time for years. It worked for me when I had two classes that basically had the same due dates and schedules, and they were not accelerated.

Now I work a Monday-Friday job, and I cannot get the school part going again for the life of me! I've tried for 2 1/2 years just to get past the first day of class without feeling overwhelmed by keeping track of all the due dates, and I just can't do it!

Is this a part of aspergers? Is it because of the multi tasking or some other ASD trait?

I've pushed my way through several dull classes before, but now I cannot manage to push through any of them.

I'm terrified of my job prospects without a degree, but I cannot manage to go to school at all right now. I also do admit, I am very bored with school right now. I'm not learning anything I want to know and I have to go at such a slow pace that an AA degree is years away. I know all that doesn't help.

But please share your story if you have gone through this, or if you overcame it, or have just been through something similar. Thank you.

I'm in that position right now. I'm going for a major i love which helps but when i'm doing basic classes they're boring and i can't motivate myself to do anything for them till the last minute. I work a full time babsyitting job during the week and friday and weekends as a cashier part time, so i dont have much time for school to begin with. Can't get much done when you're in charge of someone else's two year old lol. The 5am days are killing me.

My bad side is procrastination, i have to put everything to a routine including school work or it just wont get done and even then i still have issues starting an assignment. AS/HFA can give you excecutive functioning issues, which would be things like procrastinating, getting sttarted with assignments, organizing, etc. Have you tried to do lists or dry erase calendars? Back when i was in a traditional four year school i used a dry erase calendar with one color for each type of assignment - red was reserved strictly for money related due dates, green for simple assignment due dates, blue for exams, that sort of thing. It helped me to visually see what needed done when and the color coded labeling made it easy to just look at and make sense of, otherwise it was just a bunch of words on a calendar that i couldn't visually sort through. Right now i'm doing it online with an accelerated program; each class is five weeks long which means i can get more done in a year but at the same time its a lot to keep up with in a week.

By 'not learning anything you want to know' do you mean you're doing basics right now? As in not in classes for your major yet? Cause major related classes for me at least are fun.

 

[AsheSkyler]

My first day of class I made a big file letting me see what all the projects, tests, assignments, and whatnot I had to deal with from that class, along with a note per week when I needed to start a project to have ample time to get it done by its due date. I took it week by week and never worried about the future. So long as I followed my schedule, all was well. I found it crucial to make. Trying to remember all that data off the top of my head so my bad memory wouldn't forget anything on top of some stupid notion that I must do it all at once was just too stressful.