Hi I'm new here and I really need some good quality advice. My life has been as of lately very chaotic so I guess I should start at the beginning.
High School:In high school, I was a great student. Double athlete, SGA Vice President, and I was expected to attend a service academy and become a doctor. I even wrote a good poem on it which I'll send to you if you'd like and won a scholarship. I got into the Naval Academy Prep School and after a year I was promised a spot at the Naval Academy. Life was off to a great start or so I thought.
USNA: After a year at NAPS, I went to USNA where everything went horribly. My grades were terrible my first semester and I got called "inept'" and "stupid" enough by my peers and superiors that I really thought that I was. So I stopped wanting to be a doctor or much of anything. Add in weight struggles and a sexual assault that wasn't taken seriously, to say the least I was a bad Midshipman. Ultimately, I was separated (expelled) for lying about my height for weigh ins.
Post USNA: After leaving USNA, I was disowned by my Dad and thrown out of the family home. Then on top of that I had a bill for my time at USNA for close to $200K. Even though I asked to enlist to pay it back, they would not send me out to the Fleet. So I was 22, homeless, and super broke. Now comes the hard work.
CofC and Grad School: So I enrolled (by the grace of God and my Mom) at the College of Charleston. I completed not one but two degrees in English and Secondary Education and I minored in Theater and Creative Writing. All while working 5 jobs and trying to get military waivers. I got one for Marine Corps OCS and that took 18 months. I applied but wasn't selected but I'm applying again this year. Anyway, I couldnt get a teaching job post grad but I started supplemental Instructing at The Citadel next door to CofC. Things were ok. I was semi-stable but wanted and needed a better job with benefits.
My First Teaching Job: My first teaching job was in a rural Title 1 school where I would be teaching Theater my minor. I should have never taken this job. It was way out of my comfort zone and the kids were encouraged to do nothing and I got in trouble for making them do things. Needless to say, things there did not go well and I was not asked to come back for a confrontation I had with a student which later ended up on my teaching license.
Deep Depression: After an ultimate blow up at the school, I left and sunk into a Christmas depression. I did nothing for the holidays except gained 25 pounds. Again with the help of my Mom, I got out of the funk in January and immediately lost the weight and began substitute teaching. This went well until an anonymous source told the agency I worked for what happened at my last school.
Moving: I then moved myself out of my Mom's house to a district an hour away for a new job teaching English. I loved it and enjoyed it and was quite good but then I was fired because the state board put at Public Reprimand on my license for what happened at my first school. This still means I have my license but this puts the district in danger of being sued. So I got fired again....
Starbucks: This time after being fired, I cried in my car for 20 minutes and then drove to the unemployment agency and spent the next week applying to jobs and interviewing everywhere I could outside of education. I got a job at Starbucks which has better benefits than teaching but the work is hard and it pays $9/hr. I can't keep doing this forever so now I'm going back to high school and my plan that I had pre USNA.
The Present: Right now, I am due to graduate with my Masters in Leadership tomorrow and I am beginning to re-adress my life. I have a teaching job for the fall at a private school out of state. I'm not moving again just commuting. I'm staying at Starbucks all summer and in the meantime I plan to apply to medical school or something.
The Present Facts: I still need to figure out how to pay back the government the $200K I owe them. Thanks to the current administration needing military personel I can go back into any branch more than likely with a shorter waiver period as long as I qualify. Med school wise, I have all the credits except Biology and Organic Chemistry. I will have a Higher Ed Salary at my new job and I was planning on using it for those classes. I also plan to take the MCAT this July so I can apply to medical school in the fall/winter with those score and do interviews over Spring or Winter Break. I plan to also apply to AMEDD (Military Medical Scholarship) and try to get medical school paid that way then re-start my military career. If that doesnt work, I'm flat out enlisting with 2 Bachelors and a Masters Degree. It's not the end of the world and I'll be paying off debt.
In Closing: So with that being said, does this seem too crazy and can any help me or am I beyond help?
High School:In high school, I was a great student. Double athlete, SGA Vice President, and I was expected to attend a service academy and become a doctor. I even wrote a good poem on it which I'll send to you if you'd like and won a scholarship. I got into the Naval Academy Prep School and after a year I was promised a spot at the Naval Academy. Life was off to a great start or so I thought.
USNA: After a year at NAPS, I went to USNA where everything went horribly. My grades were terrible my first semester and I got called "inept'" and "stupid" enough by my peers and superiors that I really thought that I was. So I stopped wanting to be a doctor or much of anything. Add in weight struggles and a sexual assault that wasn't taken seriously, to say the least I was a bad Midshipman. Ultimately, I was separated (expelled) for lying about my height for weigh ins.
Post USNA: After leaving USNA, I was disowned by my Dad and thrown out of the family home. Then on top of that I had a bill for my time at USNA for close to $200K. Even though I asked to enlist to pay it back, they would not send me out to the Fleet. So I was 22, homeless, and super broke. Now comes the hard work.
CofC and Grad School: So I enrolled (by the grace of God and my Mom) at the College of Charleston. I completed not one but two degrees in English and Secondary Education and I minored in Theater and Creative Writing. All while working 5 jobs and trying to get military waivers. I got one for Marine Corps OCS and that took 18 months. I applied but wasn't selected but I'm applying again this year. Anyway, I couldnt get a teaching job post grad but I started supplemental Instructing at The Citadel next door to CofC. Things were ok. I was semi-stable but wanted and needed a better job with benefits.
My First Teaching Job: My first teaching job was in a rural Title 1 school where I would be teaching Theater my minor. I should have never taken this job. It was way out of my comfort zone and the kids were encouraged to do nothing and I got in trouble for making them do things. Needless to say, things there did not go well and I was not asked to come back for a confrontation I had with a student which later ended up on my teaching license.
Deep Depression: After an ultimate blow up at the school, I left and sunk into a Christmas depression. I did nothing for the holidays except gained 25 pounds. Again with the help of my Mom, I got out of the funk in January and immediately lost the weight and began substitute teaching. This went well until an anonymous source told the agency I worked for what happened at my last school.
Moving: I then moved myself out of my Mom's house to a district an hour away for a new job teaching English. I loved it and enjoyed it and was quite good but then I was fired because the state board put at Public Reprimand on my license for what happened at my first school. This still means I have my license but this puts the district in danger of being sued. So I got fired again....
Starbucks: This time after being fired, I cried in my car for 20 minutes and then drove to the unemployment agency and spent the next week applying to jobs and interviewing everywhere I could outside of education. I got a job at Starbucks which has better benefits than teaching but the work is hard and it pays $9/hr. I can't keep doing this forever so now I'm going back to high school and my plan that I had pre USNA.
The Present: Right now, I am due to graduate with my Masters in Leadership tomorrow and I am beginning to re-adress my life. I have a teaching job for the fall at a private school out of state. I'm not moving again just commuting. I'm staying at Starbucks all summer and in the meantime I plan to apply to medical school or something.
The Present Facts: I still need to figure out how to pay back the government the $200K I owe them. Thanks to the current administration needing military personel I can go back into any branch more than likely with a shorter waiver period as long as I qualify. Med school wise, I have all the credits except Biology and Organic Chemistry. I will have a Higher Ed Salary at my new job and I was planning on using it for those classes. I also plan to take the MCAT this July so I can apply to medical school in the fall/winter with those score and do interviews over Spring or Winter Break. I plan to also apply to AMEDD (Military Medical Scholarship) and try to get medical school paid that way then re-start my military career. If that doesnt work, I'm flat out enlisting with 2 Bachelors and a Masters Degree. It's not the end of the world and I'll be paying off debt.
In Closing: So with that being said, does this seem too crazy and can any help me or am I beyond help?
