Marriage, work, school.......poker

Thats about the order of things in my life right now. Which is progress cuz the last few months poker hasnt been on the radar. I thought i was doing the right thing when i quit playing so that i wouldnt put my wife thru the emotional swings i went thru while i dealt with the financial variance of playing poker for income. But it has put a big emphasis on income, as in ever since i havent had any. Well after 4months of no income, were a bit tight with money, but its ok cuz i start my job in 6 days and we can make it the next few weeks if we just live a bit frugally. So marriage is good, work is good, school is the focus of this blog.

I talked my las vegas teachers into letting me do independent studies to finish up my AA. Its going fine and will be literally no problem to get thru the semester and get my AA in secondary education. The problem is, im watching my dad who was a tenured science teacher in arizona, struggle to find work full time out here, and its making me think maybe a high school history teacher isnt the best choice at this time. My entire time in college i have swayed back and forth on what i want my major to be, and that might work out for me here. I have just over 73 credits and obv some of them dont work with my secondary education degree, but will work with my new degree. After a bit of research i think im going to be putting the Teaching degree on the back burner while i pursue a degree in Finance. Finance degrees have a high straight out of college hire rate, as well as a great introductory starting pay, and a high ceiling as a career. Im decent at math and enjoy learning about money and financials in general, so yeah i think this is what ill be going for.

So the next dilemma i have is where will i be attending and getting my BA from. I am living right near the university of wisconsin so that is an option. I think my only other realistic option is University of Phoenix. Im leaning U of P if i can attend there and still get my housing allowance via the GI bill, if not then U of P isnt even an option tbh. But if i can then i will probably attend u of p so that i can finish my degree faster and get to work. Also its a smaller class/school size so i think that will cater to my needs of being a full time worker while attending college more than U of W would be able to. I also think id have to wait until a minimum of August to get into U of W where as i could start U of P in Jan most likely. That would get me my housing allowance and mean that i wouldnt have to but could work a 2nd job or play poker and do school and full time work. BUSY but as ill soon reveal worth it.

So thats where im at, im waiting for our living situation to settle down, my job to start, our budget to get in line and then deposit a bit on stars and start my plan. I got to play a bit of poker this weekend (i had a bit on stars to withdraw and since some of it was transfers i had to play some hands in order to withdraw) I did good, felt focused and won a bit more, and it really got the fire burning in me. Im really looking forward to the challenge of starting over again in poker, and will be interesting to see how i do.

how bout a lil MFK for old times (F 2 obv)