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When that missing college degree begins to haunt your life.

. I am a former model and singer who decided one day, (not to long ago), that life is way too short and being short on funds means that you always have more time to "sweat the small stuff.: and less time to laze about and enjoy the sweet stuff in life that one feels that one deserves. I have worked online as a website designer and advertising consultant for very small businesses and friends of friends. When I say that I run a small business from my home I am not exaggerating! So when things went from bad to worse with my business I took a job out side my home again and thus for the "um-teenth" time since I quit college in 1993 I saw myself having to scrap my plans of taking a few classes at the local community college. My 17 year old daughter and I have plans to move her from her Grandmother's home is Las Vegas and into my Home, just 9 miles north of Palm Springs, In a pocket town called Desert Hot Springs, CA. Our intention is to enroll her in the community college out here while she lives with me. Finally after having to take a "good job" for $11.10 an hour, when I have the computer skills to make sooooooooo much more. It's the difference between having the degree and having some of the skills through learning HTML, Javascrip, and Frontpage from trial and error learning as I used them building professional looking websites. Most of the HTML I actually picked up free on the web from several tutorials and web- books, and doing search engine optimizations programs for clients, and friends, as well as a couple of my own sites. So after I picked up the Microsoft Office 2003 Professional programs I went to the Windows website and learned those programs backward and forward and gained my certificate (free again) so that I could aim my sites at landing a job for better than minimum wage. My fiance completed his Masters Degree program, in ironically "Career and Educational Counseling", while working as a senior financial aid specialist at the local community college. Though he does make a decent wage he really has to struggle to make our money last so that we don't end up with "more month than money", as is often the case, with people these days.

Anyway I had "college principles of academic blah blah blah" All around me, from the fiance, from his classmates, his friends, and former students, or current educators from the High School where he taught locally for 15 years. People who who are now in college or

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