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If you were me:
A little more than a month ago, I got laid off. I just got nuked by Prometric for the GRE, due to lack of proper ID -- my passport won't be in until 2 November -- you'd be *stunned* at how hard it is to get ID in this country if you don't already have it (driver's license, credit card!). I have $1000 worth of bills to pay, and $700 in my chequing account. My unemployment hasn't started yet, and I still don't know how much I'm getting, or for how long. Right now, I'm so worried about the next two or three months, and then beyond that (I figure my money will probably run out mid-February), that I can't concentrate on anything else.
My original plan was to apply to US grad schools for a PhD, but the application process is so time- and money-consuming, not to mention bloody Byzantine, that I don't know whether it'll be worth it to continue or not. If I go ahead and do it, I don't know if I'll get in (and if I don't, then I'm out all that money), and even if I do, if I don't get absolutely full funding and then some, I can't go anyway, for financial reasons. The deadline is coming up, though, for making the applications.
If you were me, would you continue with the application process anyway, and try to find the money to do it from somewhere, and then just try to hold out until next September, or would you concentrate all your efforts on finding a job to take care of *now* and worry about grad school for some other time, like maybe when I have a little more money?
I'm so depressed about this right now I can't even do *anything*. I feel like it's all a waste of time... I can just sort of see another year of unemployment and misery heading in my direction, and I don't like that at all... Sigh...
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