I confessed to my mom that I’m thinking of going back to school, but this time instead of community college (which I quit.... three times) I want to go to WGU which is an online university. It’s been 2 years since the last time I tried community college and I’ve learned a lot!

My boss praises my organizational skills. She gives people advice to talk to me if they want to be organized.

My time management is through the roof. I’ve worked on several large crochet projects where I blocked out time to work on my project and get them done by my deadline.

My drive is bigger now, and I actually KNOW what I want to go into rather than just “I’ll start with generals and see where it takes me”. I want to take the HR Management program.

So I tell my mom all this and the first thing she says is “you couldn’t even do community college what makes you think you can do online college?”

And honestly I’m feeling INCREDIBLY discouraged. I don’t think I should do it now. How do I counter this? How do I tell my mom that that was really an awful thing to say to someone who is trying to improve their life?

I’m just at such a loss.