What's your major? I'm majoring in Sandwich Generation with a minor in Allergies

Anonymous
Majoring in Job burnout-Special Education endorsement
Minoring in childhood mood swings
Anonymous
Majoring in my 3 year old is driving me crazy and convincing my husband to move somewhere different. Minoring in what the hell to do with my disabled mom who willingly lives in a house with a million stairs. Sigh.
Anonymous
I'm majoring in Managing Your Life with a Suddenly Chronically Ill Spouse. Special topics include What Happens When the Money Runs Out, and Trying to Keep Your Elementary School Children's Lives as Normal as Possible. Minoring in I Have Health Issues Too.
Anonymous
ROFL i needed this today OP.
I am a circus major. Courses include
-Juggling everyone’s $hit but My Own
-Whack a Mole 102 (whacking my own moles as well as my bosses’)
-Animals Be Crazy (and sometimes require Prozac)
-Remedial Troop Psychology
-Plate Spinning 201 (the audience gets to add plates that you are not expecting)

I am getting A’s so far which is why my advisor is pushing for me to add a Community Involvement certificate. But the prerequisite for that is the Not Sleeping webinar, which i took a couple times before and I’m not interested in repeating.



Anonymous
I'm 53. My courses:

DIY Landscaping, Weeding and Clearing 2 Acres Of Land Without Killing Yourself in the Process

How Not to Completely Suck at Decorating 101

College Tours and Debates

Losing the Same 40 pounds. Again.


Anonymous
My current courses consist of the following:

Single Mom 101

Helping Elderly Parent Move Out Of Their Home-For-The-Last-50-Years (this class has a lab of Parent Who Disagrees With Every Logical Decision Until The Concept Is Explained For Hours)

Fighting With Family Who Is Stealing From Grandmothers Estate (this includes a lab with Expensive Lawyers)

Home Maintenance and Repair






Anonymous
Forced into Perimenopause or just fat? Double Majoring in parental losses with infertility and only child syndrome. No time for electives but wishing I could find my cheese.
Anonymous
My major is killing me, so I signed up for 2 electives to help me cope: Advanced Magical Thinking and
Denial and Avoidance Through Hiding Out Watching MASH Reruns
Anonymous
Makes me realize how much easier the course load is these days, but still:

Major: Need to keep this job 5 more years (I'm 65) but not sure how long this school will maintain accreditation

Minor: the house still needs work to be reasonably marketable when I need to downsize but have to be careful about spending and discovered that DIY no longer interests me in the slightest

Audit seminar: niece with epilepsy, brother with TBI, losses--both the unsurprising and the absolutely blind-siding--of old friends (family passings peaked for a stretch but in a trough right now)

Perpetual incomplete: tax prep for my self-employed DS (he pays me for this) to pass on to the tax lady who is always overextended and always doing extensions/amendments but has done all our family's taxes forever and inertia is always my first choice. I keep getting the deadline extended.
Anonymous
My major is teen mental illness. Classes take place in hospitals, psychiatrists’ office, pharmacies and residential treatment programs.

Coursework includes:
- the many levels of care
- robbing Peter to pay Paul
- how to make excuses for being absent
- guilt management
- the many ways to avoid explaining your missing (hospitalized) child
- overcompensating with your other kids
- appealing insurance denials
- what to do when the mental health system fails you

I just added a new major which I start next week: tax preparation

Sorry for everyone else who is going through a tough time.
Anonymous
Graduated HS completing AP 1 eldercare and AP 2 eldercare with 5's on AP exams. Counselor screwed up and in order to graduate with honors, I needed to fulfill one last PE requirement, Live in Nurse 201: 3rd quarter DH stent scare / 4th quarter Personal trainer DH 25 lb weight loss

Taking a gap year to put house on the market so DS can attend college in 2021.

Deferred until fall 2019 - 18 credits core requirements including: SAT/ACT Prep 101 college visits 112, college applications 101, college accepts/declines 666, college decisions 101

Take special care of yourselves DCUM!
Anonymous
Majoring in overcoming being overwhelmed

Current courses include:
Supporting the severely anxious teen while not letting her fail
How to keep a struggling marriage from imploding
Helping aging parents from afar
How to be in three places at one time
Taxes for unique situations in adulthood and teens

Minoring in how to sleep four hours a day and still smile

Special electives include:
Keeping your work clothes hair free while living with a golden retriever
How often do you really need to clean the house
Living with less than perfect landscaping
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I'm majoring in Managing Your Life with a Suddenly Chronically Ill Spouse. Special topics include What Happens When the Money Runs Out, and Trying to Keep Your Elementary School Children's Lives as Normal as Possible. Minoring in I Have Health Issues Too.


OMG I think I know you from class!

Majoring in Nutritional Strategies for Slowing down ALS. Minoring in Keeping My Job.
Anonymous
Majoring in "Crashing hard into glass ceiling while male colleagues throw rocks at you" and minoring in "Toddler Health Issues, pre- and post-op preparation".

For reasons I can no longer remember, I also decided on a couple of certificate programs:
- "Spouse with medical issues who also works and travels too much"
- "Perpetual mom-guilt"

Thinking of switching majors, but right now I only have the pre-reqs for "Resentful career drop-out"
Anonymous
Majoring in Divorce with a concentration in soon to be XH has stage IIIB cancer.
Minoring in job searching, with advanced work in passing a drug test after medicinal marijuana use. Should’ve chose the family tradition of functional alcoholism instead!
Looks like I’ll be going for a graduate degree in Sandwich generation, with side work in blended families!

Luckily I really love my advisor though the shedding is terrible... he’s (a) German (Shepherd).
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